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HAVERFORD COLLEGE 
BULLETIN 

Vol. VII Fourth Month, 1909 No. 3 




Issued Quarterly by Haverford College, 
Haverford, Pa. 

Entered December 10th, 1902, at Haverford, Pa., 
as Second Class Matter under Act of Congress of July 16th, 1894 



Haverford College 
Bulletin 



proceeMnas of tbe 

Seventi^^fiftb annlversari? of tbe jfounMna 

of Ibavcrfort) (LoUege 



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NOV. 2S, 1939 



The Seventy-fifth Anniversary 

OF THE 

Founding of Haverford College 



The following is the program of the exercises : 
Tenth Month i6th, igo8. 
2.30 p. M. Reception to Delegates of Universities and Colleges, 

in the Gymnasium. 
3.30 p. M. Educational Meeting in Roberts Hall. President 
Isaac Sharpless, Chairman. 

1. Announcement of Universities and Colleges rep- 
resented. 

2. Addresses : 

(a) Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton 
University. "The Life of Colleges." 

(b) Theodore William Richards, '85, Professor 
of Chemistry in Harvard University : — 
"The Relation of Modern Chemistry to 
Medicine." 

(c) George Wharton Pepper, Professor of Law 
in the University of Pennsylvania : — "A 
Plea for the Highest Education." 

3. Conferring of Honorary Degrees. 

7.00 p. M. Subscription Dinner, open to all Havcrfordians, 
James Wood, '58, President of Alumni Association, 
presiding. Representatives of other institutions were 
present as guests. 

Tenth Month 17th, igo8. 
10.00 A.M. Cricket on Cope Field. 

Association Foot Ball on Walton Field. 
Base Ball on Merion Hall Field. 



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ii.ooA. M. A Meeting in Roberts Hall under the charge of the 
Y. M. C. A., with addresses on the work of the 
Association. J. Jarden Guenther, 'lo. Chairman. 

12.00 M. LuNCHKON in the College Dining Hall. 

i.oo P.M. Photograph of the company; east of Barclay Hall. 

1.30 p. M. Procession by classes, formed to march around the 
grounds and to Walton Field. 

2.30 p. M. Foot Ball Game on Walton Field. Franklin and 
Marshall vs. Haverford. Admission to the field 
free. Charge for grandstand, soc. 

4.00 p. M. Tea on the Lawn. 

4.30 p. M. Historical Meeting in Roberts Hall. T. Wistar 
Brown, Chairman. 

Addresses : 

(i) Conditions and Foundation Ideas leading to 
the Establishment of Haverford. 

Edward Settle, Jr., '61. 
(2) Present Demands which Justify its Exist- 
ence. Rufus M. Jones, '85. 
(2) Its Ability to Satisfy the Demands of the 
Past and Present. Isaac Sharpless. 
6.00 p. M. Collation. Free to all Haverfordians and members 

of their families upon previous notification. 
7.30 p. M. Informal Meeting in Roberts Hall, with short ad- 
dresses by old Haverfordians, College Songs, etc. 
William W. Comfort, '94, Chairman. The main floor 
reserved for Old Haverfordians. 

Frederic H. Strawbridge, '87, Chairman. 
Chas. J. Rhoads, '93, Secretary. 

Pres. Isaac Sharpless Joseph W. Sharp, Jr., '88 

Edward BettlE, Jr., '61 J. Stogdell Stokes, '89 

Henry Cope, '69 William W. Comeort, '94 

John M. Whitall, '80 J. Henry Scattergood, '96 

John C. Winston, '81 Alfred M. Collins, '97 

William L. Baily, '83 Walter C. Janney, '98 

Alfred P. Smith, '84 Alfred C. Maule, '99 

Committee. 



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At 2.30 p. m. on the i6th the procession was formed in 
the Gymnasium, and marched in Academic costume to 
Roberts Hall. The Colleges and Universities repre- 
sented, with their delegates, were as follows : 

Allegheny College President Crawford. 

Bates College Prof. L. G. Jordan. 

Brown University C. N. Collins. 

Bryn Mawr College Dr. George A. Barton. 

Bucknell University President Harris. 

California, University of Prof. W. M. Hart. 

Clark University President Hall. 

Colgate University President Crawshaw. 

Columbia University Prof. Henry B. Mitchell. 

Cornell University President Schurman. 

Dartmouth College E. M. Hopkins. 

Delaware College President Harter. 

Dickinson College President Reed. 

Earlham College President Kelly. 

Franklin and Marshall College. .Prof. Schiedt. 

Friends University Herman Newman. 

Guilford College President L. L. Hobbs. 

Hamihon College Rev. John H. Lee. 

Harvard University Dr. T. W. Richards. 

Hobart College President Stewardson. 

Indiana University Prof. J. A. Miller. 

Johns Hopkins University Profs. Elliott and Wood. 

Juniata College President Brumbaugh. 

Kenyon College Prof. Newhall. 

Lafayette College President E. D. Warfield. 

Lehigh University President Henry S. Drinker. 

Leland Stanford Junior Univ.... Dr. Harlan Shoemaker. 

Lincoln University Prof. Wright. 

Maryland, University of Dr. Winslow and 

Prof. John C. Hemmeter. 

Middlebury College Rev. Dr. Richard S. Holmes. 

Muhlenberg College President Haas. 

Ohio State University Prof. T. Harvey Haines. 

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Penn College President A. Rosenberger. 

Pennsylvania College President S. G. Hefelbovver. 

Pennsylvania State College Ex-Gov'nor James A. Beaver. 

Pennsylvania, University of Dr. Gecrge Wharton Pepper. 

Pittsburg University Mr. Linhart. 

Princeton, University of President Wilson and 

Prof. J. D. Spaeth. 

Rochester, University of Rev. Philip L. Jones. 

Rutgers College President Demarest. 

St. John's College President Fell. 

Swarthmore College President Swain. 

Trinity College Prof. W. M. Urban. 

Tuft's College Taber Ashton. 

Ursinus College Prof. G. L. Omwake. 

Villa Nova College Rev. Dr. Delurey. 

Virginia, University of Rev. J. Thompson Cole. 

Washington and Jeff'n College.. Dr. Henry C. McCook. 
Washington and Lee University.. President Denny. 

Wesleyan University Prof. W. H. Heidel. 

Western Reserve University Prof. C. C. Williamson. 

Williams College Prof. George Edwin Howes. 

Wilmington College President Albert J. Brown. 

Woman's College Dr. Hans Froehcher. 

Yale University Dr. E. W. Brown. 



EDUCATIONAL MEETING IN ROBERTS HALL. 
Isaac SharplESS, President, Chairman. 

Pre^side^nt Sharpi^ess : In accordance with a custom 
which is seventy-five years old, I will ask you to join 
with me in a few moments of silent devotion, asking the 
blessing of our Father upon the exercises of this 
occasion. 

(Silent devotion, with delegates standing.) 
PrESIde^nt Sharpless: Haverford College feels it 
to be an honor which I cannot adequately express that 

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so many distinguished universities and colleges have 
honored us with their presence by delegates on this occa- 
sion, in the celebration of our seventy-fifth birthday. 
Many others have sent congratulatory notes, more or less 
formal, conveying to us their best wishes for our pros- 
perity. For all of this we are extremely grateful. We 
feel it to be a very great honor, indeed, that a little insti- 
tution of our sort should have been the recipient of so 
many congratulations from such distinguished sources. 

Seventy-five years ago, on the 28th of this month, 
there were three teachers and twenty-one boys here ; 
there were about two hundred acres of land, one unfin- 
ished building, and no endowment. Since that time we 
have grown in number of teachers and students and 
houses and lands and endowment; but, still, our dimen- 
sions in all these respects are comparatively modest. 
We think, however, that it is a history worth commem- 
orating, and to-morrow we shall go into the details of 
it with some fulness and carefulness ; but to-day we have 
asked you to come together to listen to the addresses of 
distinguished educators on some of the important sub- 
jects relating to collegiate life. We are very much 
pleased that about sixty colleges have accepted our in- 
vitation and are represented here ; and this will be an 
audience which I am sure it is worth while to address. 

We are becoming accustomed, in late years, to look to 
Princeton for the newest and best things in thought and 
collegiate management. I have heard it said that Presi- 
dent Wilson makes study over there necessary, and per- 
haps popular (Laughter) ; it is very possible that he 
does both ; but, certainly, the changes which have been 
made there within the few years past, and which are 

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due to his initiation and his management, are extremely 
interesting, and perhaps revolutionary in their effects 
upon collegiate life in America. It is, therefore, a great 
pleasure to me to introduce to you President Woodrow 
Wilson, of Princeton University. (Prolonged applause.) 

Woodrow Wilson : President Sharpless, Ladies and 
Gentlemen: 

A revolutionist should bring you a better voice in 
which to proclaim his revolution than I have brought 
you this afternoon ; but in this hall of convenient size, 
perhaps I can make myself audible on some of the sub- 
jects which have interested me most in recent years. 

It is really a great privilege to be allowed to speak of 
matters which seem essential to the life of colleges, to 
an audience composed of men who can judge whether 
I speak the truth or not. And it seemed to me a particu- 
larly appropriate occasion upon which to speak of some 
matters of reform which do not directly concern Haver- 
ford, because she has in many respects been an hon- 
orable example to the contrary (Voices: "Hear! hear!") 
I believe that Haverford should receive our homage 
because of the conservative manner in which she has pre- 
served the simplicity and homogeneity of her life. The 
wholeness of her life, the direct contact between those 
who teach and those who are taught, the democratic 
unity of the community, and many other things for 
which we know she stands, are among her honorable 
distinctions. 

For it seems to me that in recent years the life of our 
colleges has become so heterogeneous that it is impos- 
sible to get the best results out of it. You know that one 
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with regard to the affairs of the nation is the hetero- 
geneity and complexity of our modern national life. We 
are not so much in doubt as to our moral standards as 
we are with respect to the application of those standards 
in very difficult and complicated cases; for the country 
is no longer a congeries of families, no longer a body 
of men ; it is a body of complex corporate organizations 
in which the individual is largely lost, and in which, 
therefore, the old commands of the law, addressed to 
individuals, are hardly susceptible of application. The 
individual has run to cover; and in the complexities of 
modern life it is very difficult to discover so much as his 
trail. (Laughter.) 

We are not in doubt what we wish to have done; but 
we are sadly in doubt how, having made only an imper- 
fect analysis of our modern life, we are to accomplish 
what we desire. We are attempting to reform a society 
which we have only partially analyzed and imperfectly 
understood; so that there is a contest among the best 
minds in this country as to whether certain things are 
good or evil. There is a contest amongst honest, 
thinking men as to whether the trust, for example, is, 
or is not, an evil. We know that trusts harbor men 
who do the nation deep wrong, but that is another ques- 
tion ; and the real perplexity of our thought is to discover 
these individuals and bring them out of the cover of 
their association with other men at directors' tables and 
elsewhere, and set them before the tribunal of the 
nation's judgment. 

And this same complexity — which is due to a thou- 
sand material circumstances, which have led to a thou- 
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our schools and our colleges, spreading by natural 
process out of the life and experience of the nation itself. 
If you go into a modern school, or a modern college, 
and ask them to lay a program before you of what they 
are doing, it is like a catalogue of everything that con- 
cerns modern life. They are not doing anything in par- 
ticular ; they are doing everything in general. And it is 
very much in general ; for, doing everything in general, 
they have not time to do anything in particular. So 
that they are touching the life of the nation here, there, 
elsewhere, everywhere, in the attempt to make a pro- 
gram as various as the life of the nation itself. A pro- 
gram this, highly proper to a university; because a 
university is the place where men must get their expert 
knowledge and that final touch of particular preparation 
and special skill which will fit them for the immediate 
tasks of a practical world. A university is a school for 
those who have their eyes turned directly either to re- 
search, or to teaching, or to the higher sorts of the 
applications of science to modern industry and to all the 
material undertakings of the age. The university must 
have the variety of the nation. 

But reaching down from the university, and particu- 
larly from the German university, through the college 
into the schools, we have made this same diversity to pre- 
vail among the colleges and the schools. And in these 
places, hitherto means for discipline, hitherto meant for 
discovering whether men have minds or not, hitherto 
meant for a common discipline which would produce 
types of thinking and types of moral attitude, we are 
seeking the diversity, the multiplicity, the scattered pur- 
poses, of the university itself. In the university we don't 

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allow the individual student to scatter his attention — 
the individual studies two or three things ; but in the 
school and in the college the individual scatters, and 
attempts to study everything; we make it impossible to 
produce uniform results, not only, but impossible to find 
a method of discipline. 

We have come to an age of absolutely dispersed 
standards, of an absolutely anatomized and analyzed 
system of instruction ; and it is necessary that we should 
begin for the school and for the college, as we should 
begin for the nation, a very determined and studious 
attempt at synthesis. We must know what we would be 
at ; and then we must discover the organization best 
adapted to accomplish that thing. 

We do not yet know what we would be at ; if we did, 
we would not ask an entering freshman what he wants ; 
we would tell him what he ought to have. (Applause, 
and a voice: "Good!"). The wisdom, the ordering, the 
success, of the modern college course largely depends 
upon the intelligence of the entering class. Now I don't 
think, for my part (belonging to the teaching part of 
the university), that the university should have as its 
standard of intelligence the intelligence of the men who 
are just beginning to come under its discipline and 
influence. I don't care to put myself at the disposal even 
of my dear friends of the freshman class at Princeton. 
I think that unless, as I approach the age of fifty-two, I 
know better what these young gentlemen should have than 
they know, one of them — the best of them, I hope — 
should take my place. (Laughter.) The parts are 
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not attempted any synthesis, and don't know what we 
would be at. 

Now, why is synthesis difficult? It is not difficult to 
get a body of thoughtful men together in a room and 
make a program of study which will be better than the 
programs of study in most of our colleges; it would be 
very difficult to make a worse in some of them. I mean, 
by a worse, not in respect of its contents, but in respect 
of the relations of the subjects to each other and the 
portions considered essential, and the portions considered 
non-essential, or the portions considered more essential 
than others. That is what I mean by a program : a 
program for a course of study made up of the most 
excellent parts of the body of knowledge placed in their 
right order, and assigned to the most capable scholars 
to be taught. Until you have such a scheme you have not 
got a course or a program of study. I say it is not difficult 
to get thoughtful men together and make out a reason- 
ably consistent and intelligent course of study ; but when 
you have made the course of study, then you have to go 
out and capture your students. 

For what are your students doing ? Your students are 
doing everything except paying serious attention to their 
studies. And they are not doing it because they are 
averse from study; they are not doing it, I believe, be- 
cause they are unconscious of the beauty and desirability 
of study. They are doing it because there are so many 
other interesting things to be done in the college to which 
they go that, really, they haven't the time to be inter- 
ested in study. And the things that they do are, in them- 
selves, innocent and worth doing. The point is not that 
they are doing vicious things, not that they are doing 



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things that lead to mere idleness ; not that they are doing 
things that are unworthy of cultured and even of ambi- 
tious young men ; but that, because the things they are 
doing are excellent, because they are interesting, because 
they are very well suited to engage the attention of hon- 
orable men, they engage their attention entirely and their 
instructors get the residuum. (Laughter.) College life 
has swallowed up the college curriculum, and has swal- 
lowed it whole, without digestion, (Laughter.) 

In order to insert knowledge, you must really get the 
attention of those whom you are addressing; and unless 
you get that attention you can do nothing. You cannot 
get it unless you see to it that their minds are sufficiently 
disengaged from other things to be free to turn to you. 

Now look at the modern college ! You cannot count 
the number of organizations that exist in the larger col- 
lege. There are not only athletic organizations. We 
have been getting excited about the wrong thing. It is 
not athletics that absorbs the attention of the average 
undergraduate. Athletics absorb the attention of 
the members of the athletic teams, to an un- 
necessary and to a demoralizing extent ; but they 
do not absorb the attention of the average under- 
graduate very seriously. He goes out to see the 
practice, and he cheers the team ; but he ought to 
be out of doors that long; and if he has not the ambition 
to exercise himself, it is just as well to cheer others on 
in their exercise. I see no harm in that. It improves the 
lung power and it draws undergraduates together in a 
certain disposition of spirited co-operation. (A voice: 
"That's good!") I am not in the least jealous of that. 
It is not the athletic organizations that are engrossing 

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their attention, though they do engross the attention of 
very many capable young gentlemen who are some-time 
to be the heads of corporations; but there are scores of 
other organizations which do engross it; particularly 
social organizations, musical organizations, dramatic 
organizations, organizations to play chess, organizations 
to play whist, organizations to swim, organizations to do 
everything you can imagine; and the more capable, the 
more energetic, the more popular sort of man, has so 
many of his energies drawn upon by the necessity to 
organize his fellow-students in these ways that he has 
not time for his studies. 

I had one of our most capable undergraduates say to 
me once that he didn't have time to take the mental 
science fellowship that season because he had to run the 
college (laughter) ; the point was, that though the lad 
was talking in jest, the thing was very nearly literally 
true. He was a fellow of extraordinary administrative 
capacity, and the whole undergraduate body did look to 
him for the suggestions which were to organize them 
for this, that, and the other thing that they wanted to do ; 
and many a boy in school nowadays chooses his college 
by the tests of the number of interesting things there are 
to do there which have nothing to do with study. I 
don't blame him. I have no doubt that if I were at his 
age and in his place I would do just the same thing. 
But I want to ask college presidents if it is their ambi- 
tion to be presidents of country clubs? (Laughter and 
applause.) Country clubs are very admirable things; 
but their presidencies do not afford careers ; an ambitious 
gentleman must have something else to do beside that. 

Now our colleges are not yet country clubs; and I do 

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not think that the one college that I know most of, is at 
present in any danger of becoming one. But I am 
aware that in many a college the faculty happens to be 
in this ungracious position ; it says to these young gentle- 
men placed under its care, "You must study ;" and pres- 
ently does drop them wholesole because they will not. 
Then they study ; and if they are asked and pressed for 
a reason why they study, it is not because of the love- 
liness and desirability of knowledge, but because they 
want to stay in the place to enjoy its life. The price of 
the life is the successful passing of examinations. 

Now, gentlemen, what is knowledge that is not itself 
an expression of life? How shall we ever produce men 
who will add to the intellectual force of this nation until 
we have turned away from this idea that college is 
merely, or chiefly, a delightful and desirable place in 
which to live, to that other ideal — older, more sacred, 
more beautiful, more vital — that it is a place in which 
to awaken the energies of the mind — to all those con- 
ceptions which lift men and nations to higher planes of 
living ? 

Then, when that spirit begins to obtain, the colleges 
of this country will so throb with life that men won't ask 
themselves whether they ought to send their sons to 
these places, any more than they will ask themselves 
whether, if they want electric power, they had better 
make connections with dynamos. They will then know 
that power is stored in such places, and that their sons 
may be treated like storage batteries and filled with that 
power. 

But that power is not now there, except for individ- 
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fortunately, by hundreds, to those places: boys with 
serious eyes in their heads, boys dreaming of things that 
lie beyond graduation, boys who have been thoughtful 
of life, who have pored upon great biographies and 
conceived great purposes and seen visions; and they 
segregate themselves and go through such schools as 
men set apart for a great undertaking; but they do not 
leaven the mass. For my part I don't want to be a task- 
master; I don't want to compel likable, lovable, young- 
sters to study because I say they must. I crave the 
privilege of showing them how beautiful a thing it is; 
the privilege of living with them and asking them If 
there is any flavor in my mind and in the minds of my 
colleagues, in the minds of those who represent life's 
study, that is to their taste, whether this is the flavor and 
the impulse they desire. I want a part in their life; and 
the only way in which the colleges in this country can 
be lifted out of their present heterogeneity into some 
fateful unity is by an organization which will make a 
common life, from top to bottom, for students and pro- 
fessors. 

Now I am not going to lay out a program, or any spe- 
cial favorite plan of my own, by which that can be done ; 
but I tell you, with the utmost confidence, that that 
is the only way in which the colleges of this country will 
be made real powers in the nation — a common organiza- 
tion, of which the faculty shall be just as intimate and 
vital a part as the undergraduates themselves ; in which 
sport will be sport and not an occupation; in which 
diversions will be diversions and not the object of life; 
in which all the things that relieve the strain of work 
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occupations ; and all of life shall be permeated with the 
consciousness that these men are members of a great 
community devoted to things which touch the highest 
ideals of the life, of the individual, and of the country. 

You cannot get the spirit of learning transmitted 
through a non-conducting medium ; and the modern 
organization of college life is a non-conducting medium 
for a score of reasons which you know just as well as I 
do; I do not have to expound them. It is a non-conduct- 
ing medium ; and you are wasting your power in trying 
to make a non-conducting medium conduct. If you 
believe in the real laws of spiritual transmission, first 
connect the veins and the vertebrae of your college life : 
you would then see the blood transmitted. Until you 
have done that, it will be impossible. We are now awak- 
ening to the fact that our college success does not 
depend chiefly either upon the excellence of our course of 
study, or the excellence of our body of instructors ; it 
depends upon the character of the college life. If these 
excellent things are to be received the organization must 
be of one kind; if they are not to be received it must 
be of the present kind. Our task is a task of reconceiv- 
ing and reorganizing the life of the American college. 
(Applause.) 

President Sharpless: Ever since Thomas Chase 
came to Haverford College in 1856, there has been a 
steady stream of teachers coming from that great insti- 
tution in Cambridge, to Haverford. At the present 
time, I think ten members of the teaching force in this 
college have their degrees from Harvard. At the same 
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way — of graduates of Haverford College who have 
sought further opportunities to study there; and the 
spirit in which they have been received has been so 
sympathetic and co-operative, the conditions there have 
been so elastic, that our students have found that they 
could get what they wanted. It was, therefore, inevitable 
that we should desire a representative of Harvard Uni- 
versity on such an occasion as this ; and when I asked one 
of the chief officials of Harvard whom I should ask to 
represent them on this occasion, his reply was, to "get 
Richards, the glory of Haverford and Harvard." (Ap- 
plause and cheers for Richards.) I believe that Richards, 
of '85, has the unique distinction of being the only 
American that was ever asked to accept a full professor- 
ship in a German university. We shall be glad to hear 
from Dr. Richards. (Applause.) 

The Rei/ATion oi^ Modern Chemistry to Medicine. 
Ladies and Gentlemen: 

I thank the President most heartily for his quite too 
kind words of introduction. 

Harvard University sends her warm greetings on this 
happy occasion, and her hearty good wishes for the 
future welfare of Haverford College. Many strong ties 
bind the old University on the Charles River to this 
younger institution in the land of William Penn. As 
President Sharpless has said, President Thomas Chase 
was a Harvard man, and so was Professor Pliny Earle 
Chase; the present honored leader, President Sharpless 
himself, is a Harvard man, and many other members of the 
Faculty have brought hither Harvard influence. More- 
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done their part in winning estimation and regard for 
our oldest institution of learning and in helping her to 
form her present standards. One of the pioneers among 
these, Professor Clement Lawrence Smith, was long 
Dean of Harvard College. "Veritas" — the sacred word 
blazoned on the three books of the Harvard seal — is the 
daily inspiration of Haverford no less than of Harvard. 

To me personally this celebration of the seventy-fifth 
anniversary of the founding of Haverford College brings 
keen pleasure. A hundred delightful memories of prof- 
itably spent years are revived. It is no small joy to 
return after nearly a quarter of a century, and to find 
Haverford expanded as befits her work, but still as 
beautiful as ever. In addition, the privilege of offering 
here my testimony to the significance of the search after 
truth is an especial satisfaction. 

In these days science no longer needs justification as a 
subject worthy of man's earnest devotion. The gain in 
exact knowledge of the forces and materials of the uni- 
verse is recognized on all sides as bringing with it 
promise of incalculable benefit to humanity. The full 
importance of this new light in its bearing upon the 
amelioration of the human lot is only just beginning to 
be realized. 

In keeping with the increasing appreciation of the 
value of scientific research to humanity, there exists to- 
day among scientific men the effort to relate each partic- 
ular science to every other, and to associate all together 
in a coherent whole, without losing sight of the need of 
accuracy in each part. The existence of such composite 
branches of study as physical chemistry, biochemistry, 
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this broader outlook; and some of the greatest modern 
scientific advances are being made along the border lines 
between the different sciences. Nature is, after all, a 
unit, and our classifications of her closely related phe- 
nomena into special topics are partly arbitrary. 

This effort to relate the various sciences to each 
other is helpful not only to science as a whole ; it is bene- 
ficial likewise to the individual worker. A man's mental 
outlook must be broadened by an attempt to trace the 
relation of his special task to the manifold other activities 
and needs of humanity. 

The particular branch of science called chemistry has 
many relations to human life as well as to other sciences. 
It forms an essential part of any philosophy of nature; 
it serves as an admirable means of intellectual discipline ; 
it guides the manufacturer and the merchant toward effi- 
ciency in production and purity of product; but, perhaps, 
most important of all, it holds the key which alone can 
unlock the gate to really fundamental knowledge of the 
hidden causes of health and disease. This is one of the 
most precious and vital ways in which any branch of 
science can serve humanity in the years to come. 

Ten centuries ago, in the time of the alchemists, chem- 
istry was called "the handmaid of medicine ;" to-day 
this relationship is not weaker, but rather, much stronger. 
The object of the present address is to call attention 
very briefly to some of the ways in which modern chem- 
istry may be able to help the theory and practice of 
medicine. 

That a close relationship between chemistry and med- 
icine exists is clear to every one. Our bodies are wholly 
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functions of the living organism depend, at least in part, 
upon chemical reactions. Chemical processes enable us 
to digest our food, keep us warm, supply us with muscu- 
lar energy. It is highly probable that even the impres- 
sions of our senses, and the thoughts of our brains, as 
well as the mode of conveying these through the nerves, 
are all concerned more or less intimately with chemical 
reactions. In short, the human body is a wonderfully 
intricate chemical machine; and its health and illness, 
its life and death, are essentially connected with the co- 
ordination of a variety of complex chemical changes. 

This intricacy of the living body demands clear sight 
and profound knowledge for its full understanding; and 
the chemistry of former days was much too simple and 
superficial to be a very useful guide in the puzzling laby- 
rinth of many converging and crossing paths. Now, 
circumstances have wholly changed. Chemistry is fast 
approaching physics in accuracy, and is expanding 
beyond physics in scope. As chemical understanding 
has increased, the gap between the simpler phenomena of 
the chemical laboratory and the more complicated 
changes underlying organic life, has become smaller and 
smaller. The intelligent physician is perceiving this, and 
welcomes the help which the rapidly advancing science of 
chemistry can give him. An eminent pathologist re- 
cently said that in the study of the cell and its growth, 
normal as well as abnormal, the investigating medical 
scientist has come to the place where he must fall back 
upon chemical knowledge, because he perceives that the 
action of the cell depends upon the nature and quantity of 
the various chemical substances of which it is made. 
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sist simply of aggregations of a great variety of cells, 
each of which is governed by chemical laws, it is clear 
that chemistry must underlie all the vital functions. 

Chemistry may be of use to medicine in at least three 
quite different ways. One of these is concerned with 
finding out ivhat things are made of. This kind of 
chemistry is, as you know, called analytical chemistry. 
Another way in which chemistry can help medicine de- 
pends upon the ability of the modern chemist not only 
to find out what the things are made of, but also to 
discover how the parts are put together. This branch of 
chemistry is called structural chemistry, because it has 
to do not only with the materials, but also with the way 
in which these materials are arranged. Yet another 
method of helpfulness comes from a still more recent de- 
velopment of chemistry, commonly called physical chem- 
istry, which deals with the phenomena lying on the bor- 
der line between physics and chemistry — especially 
that part of the border line concerning the re- 
lation of energy to material. The physical chemist 
must know not only what things are made of and how 
these elements are put together, but also what energy 
is concerned in putting them together, and what energy 
is set free when they are decomposed. 

Each of these three kinds of chemistry can greatly aid 
the science and art of medicine — and no philosopher is 
needed to proclaim how much more effective their assist- 
ance may be than the old method of observing merely 
the outward appearance of fluid and tissue. 

Let us now briefly glance in detail at the various 
aspects of these three modes of helpfulness, taking them 
in the order in which they have just been mentioned. 

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First comes the field of the analytical chemist. As has 
been said, the human body is a chemical machine. It is 
composed entirely of chemicals, and is actuated exclu- 
sively by chemical energy. The analytical chemist is able 
to tell us the composition of each one of the manifold 
substances that compose this intricate machine. He is 
able not only to discover the various elements which are 
present, but also to estimate with considerable precision 
their exact amounts. He can analyze food, as well as the 
various parts and secretions of the body, and can deter- 
mine the relation between the composition of the food 
which is eaten and the resulting bodily substance. This 
is all obviously of great value, for it shows us at once in 
a general way what elements ought to enter into the food ; 
and moreover, in cases of disease it gives us excellent 
clues to the manner in which various functions of the 
body depart from the normal, and thus confers important 
aid in diagnosis and the suggestion of suitable treatment. 
But this is an old and obvious story, hence I will not 
dwell further upon the analytical side of the application 
of chemistry to medicine, important as it is. 

Let us now turn to the second aspect of the subject, 
namely, the relation of structural chemistry to medicine. 
So recent is the development of the subject that the very 
idea of structural chemistry is not yet a part of the 
average liberally educated man's equipment. 

Structural chemistry had its origin in the discovery 
that two substances might be made up of exactly the 
same percentage amount, of exactly the same elements, 
and yet be entirely different from one another. This fact, 
that two things may be exactly alike as to the constitu- 
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there must be difference of arrangement of some kind 
or other. We can obtain the clearest conception of this 
idea with the help of the atomic hypothesis. If the small- 
est particles of any given compound substance are built 
up of still smaller atoms of the various elements con- 
cerned, it is clear that we can conceive of different 
arrangements of these atoms, and it is reasonable to sup- 
pose that the particular arrangements might make con- 
siderable difference in the nature of the resulting com- 
pounds. Everywhere in life arrangement is significant. 
In spelling even simple words the different arrangement 
causes wholly different effects, as for example in art and 
rat. In the case of numbers the combination 191 is very 
different from 911 (especially where dollars are con- 
cerned), although each contains the same individual 
signs. Why may not arrangement be significant in the 
case of atoms? 

It is not possible in this brief address to explain ex- 
actly how chemists obtain a notion of the arrangement 
of atoms which build up the particles (or molecules) of 
each substance. We depend upon two methods of 
working; one the splitting up of the compound and find- 
ing into what groups it decomposes ; the other, the 
attempt to build up from these or similar groups the origi- 
nal compound. Just as among the fragments of a col- 
lapsed building you will find bits enough to show whether 
it was a dwelling, a stable, or a machine shop, so among 
the fragments of a broken-down substance you will find 
bits of its structure still remaining together, enough to 
indicate something of the original grouping. Each dif- 
ferent chemical structure will leave a different kind of 
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substance can be constructed by suitable means, the evi- 
dence is strong that some knowledge of the structure 
has been gained. 

As regards the usefulness of structural chemistry to 
medicine, we cannot but see at once its vast importance. 
If the binding together of infinitesimal atoms in different 
ways modifies the properties of the resulting substances 
differently, it is obvious that the particular mode of 
binding together every one of the complicated com- 
pounds constituting our bodies is of vital importance to 
us. Moreover, in the case of our food, the arrangement 
alone of the atoms may make all the difference between 
nourishment and poison. 

It is easy to see why these different structures should 
have different effects in the body. Living, in the case 
of animals, is a continued process of breaking down more 
complicated structures into simpler ones, and it is clear 
that this breaking down will happen in different ways 
with different groupings, and thus produce different 
results. 

The knowledge of the atomic arrangement of the 
various substances composing the body is bound to fur- 
nish not only an invaluable guide in the study of physiol- 
ogy, pathology and hygiene, but has already led to the 
logical discovery of entirely new medicines, built up arti- 
ficially in the laboratory to fit the especial needs of par- 
ticular ailments, and to the rational use of foods. In the 
years to come, these gains are bound to multiply. 

Thus in the future the physician may do his work, 
not with a serum or virus of doubtful composition and 
value, but rather with pure substances built up in the 

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chemical laboratory, — substances, with their groups of 
atoms so arranged by subtle science as to accomplish the 
reconstruction of worn-out organs or the destruction of 
malignant germs without working harm of any kind. 
We may thus dream of the attainment of an artificial 
immunity from smallpox, for example, as much superior 
to vaccination as this is superior to the old inoculation. 

Beneficent substances of this kind will not often be 
discovered by accident; the number of possible arrange- 
ments is far too great. In order to know all there is to 
be known about the matter, the structure of each intri- 
cate substance existing in the body must be found, and 
the arrangement of the atoms in each particle of our 
complex organism. Until this shall be done, we cannot 
be in a position to predict with any reasonable certainty 
what is going to happen to these substances in the round 
of their daily functions, or how they are likely to be 
influenced by disease. This is a problem so vitally im- 
portant that it would be hard to exaggerate its signifi- 
cance to posterity. 

As I have said, modern knowledge now demands of 
the chemist that he should know not only the elements 
composing all things and how these elements are put 
together, but also how great an output of energy is 
involved in every change to which they may be subjected. 

Now there is no doubt that energy is the immediate 
cause of every action in the known universe. Without 
any kind of energy, the whole universe would be 
quiescent, dark, piercingly cold, asleep. A world imbued 
with physical energies, but without chemical energy, 
might revolve and have light and warmth; but it could 
possess no organic life, for life is based upon the action 

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of chemical energy. Thus the study of chemical 
energy is another very important human problem. 

Physical chemistry has to do with the relation of each 
of the various kinds of energy to chemical change. It 
deals with the acting, driving forces which make life 
possible, and in each of its many aspects it brings new 
intelligence to bear upon the working of the living 
mechanism. 

Physical chemistry treats among other topics the 
chemical relations of the changes from solid to liquid, 
and from liquid to gas, and discusses the nature of solu- 
tions and mixtures of all kinds. As the living body is 
composed of solids and liquids, and depends upon the 
gases of the atmosphere for promotion of the chemical 
changes animating it; and as solutions and mixtures are 
present in every cell, the laws and theories of physical 
chemistry are: intertwined with every fact of physiology. 

Again, physical chemistry deals with the relation of 
heat to chemical change. The output of energy in the 
form of heat in every chemical reaction is worthy of 
study, but especially ought man to investigate the steps 
by which is evolved all animal heat — and this is exclu- 
sively due to chemical reaction. Moreover, physical 
chemistry studies the effect of changing temperature 
upon the speed and tendency of chemical action, — a 
matter of importance in the study of fevers and other 
abnormal conditions, as well as in the tracing of the 
marvellous hidden mechanism by which the body is kept 
at almost constant temperature. 

This dynamic chemistry of the future does not stop 
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found relations of chemistry and electricity, bearing per- 
haps upon some of the mysteries of nervous action, and 
furnishing much intelligence concerning the nature of 
solutions in general. More important perhaps than all 
this, is the branch of the subject called photochemistry — 
the chemistry of light — which promises to give great 
assistance in the interpretation of the changes occurring 
in the leaves of plants under the influence of sunlight. 
Through the agency of light alone nature is able to build 
up the intricate compounds needed to provide all animals 
with food ; and until we understand the growth of the 
vegetable we cannot hope to understand that of the 
animal. 

A moment's thought will show that this chemistry of 
substances in action; that is, the chemistry of energy — 
brings with it a promise of helpfulness to future genera- 
tions, which perhaps exceeds that of any other science. 
For the study of the inert substances from which life has 
departed, no matter how accurate this study may be, 
cannot give us a true knowledge of its real ofiQce any 
more than we can predict from the appearance of a 
stuffed bird in a museum its complete habit of life. In 
order to understand the process of living, one must see 
the substances in action and study their behavior under 
the influence of the manifold forces which play around 
them ; and this is the aim of physical chemistry. 

I have outlined very briefly a few of the ways in which 
science holds out great promise of help to suffering 
humanity in the future. To some the point of view may 
have seemed materialistic; we must remember, however, 
that science does not attempt to fathom the ultimate mys- 
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est mysteries of life seem almost as far from solution as 
ever. Just what relations exist, for example, between 
chemical change and thought, what permanent altera- 
tions of chemical structure cause memory, we know not. 
Life we have never been able to produce from dead mate- 
rial alone. Personality and heredity defy the chemist 
as they do the physiologist and the psychologist. But 
let us not be impatient. Though it is impossible to pre- 
dict how far we shall be enabled by means of our limited 
minds to penetrate into the mysteries of a universe im- 
measurably vast and wonderful, we may yet comfort 
ourselves with the thought that each step gained brings 
new blessings to humanity and new inspiration to greater 
endeavor. 

Preside;nt Sharpless : It is said that one of the 
faults of Pennsylvanians is a lack of appreciation of 
their own men and of their own institutions. Certainly, 
he who has not found out that we have, down here in 
West Philadelphia, one of the great universities of the 
country, does not appreciate as he should a great Phila- 
delphia institution, which has been growing remarkably 
in numbers and usefulness and equipment of recent 
years. In the great historic schools of law and medicine 
our graduates have been proud to recognize themselves 
as graduates ; and it is eminently proper that we should 
have on this occasion a representative of one of those 
great schools in the presence of a professor of law and a 
legal practitioner in Philadelphia — a man, too, whose per- 
sonal career and character are appreciated by all Haver- 
fordians who know him. I am very pleased to introduce 
to you Dr. George Wharton Pepper. (Applause.) 



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A PueA I^OR TH^ HlGHE^ST EDUCATION. 

It is no conventional greeting that I bring from the 
University of Pennsylvania. We are Haverford's near 
neighbors — too near to be deceived by false appearances ; 
near enough to see defects invisible at a distance. 
When, therefore, we bear witness that her record is 
spotless, and that she has ever steered her course by the 
twin stars of sound learning and simple living, our testi- 
mony is entitled to double weight. Haverford has won 
high place in our affection and esteem. We have been 
eager to learn from her wise men. We have pressed 
her sons into our service whenever they could be ob- 
tained. We have not infrequently gone down to defeat 
at the hands of her cricketers. Accept, brethren, our 
hearty congratulations upon all that your alma mater 
has accomplished, and an expression of our abiding faith 
that she will do still greater things than these in the 
days to come. 

A steady ascent of seventy-five years has brought you 
to a point of vantage from which you may command a 
wide view of the whole field of education in the United 
States. Permit me to direct your attention to our col- 
leges and universities and to the armies of students that 
move to and fro over the face of the landscape. These 
young men are destined soon to become persons of influ- 
ence in their respective communities. They will have a 
large part in moulding public opinion. What is your 
estimate of them? What think you of the institutions 
which claim their allegiance? I who ask the question 
have passed much of my life among students of various 
colleges. I have breathed the atmosphere of many of our 
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strength of the American college student. I am proud 
of our institutions of higher learning, and I confess that 
it hurts my feelings when I am told that they number 
in their faculties few scholars worthy of the name. But 
shall we shut our eyes to the things that are amiss ? Shall 
we indulge in indiscriminate praise instead of doing all 
that we can to transform what is good into the better? 
I venture to ask you to look for a few minutes critically 
but not unkindly at the young men in our colleges, and 
to consider whether our institutions of higher learning 
are discharging their whole duty to the students within 
their gates. 

When I draw a college student into serious conversa- 
tion I find his development lacking in symmetry. His 
intellectual side is apt to show signs of no little care and 
attention. He is usually characterized by great vigor 
of body. He is full of unanalyzed impulses, most of them 
good. He has in many cases aspirations for useful ser- 
vice ; but the aspirations are vague and seem to lack the 
definiteness which transforms aspiration into achieve- 
ment. It is not often that I find a young man who has 
fixed for himself a purpose in life. He lacks the power 
that comes from the mastery of a single motive. He 
has an embryonic sense of responsibility for his talents 
and time, but he is without a definite standard by which 
to judge himself and to determine the extent to which 
his responsibility is being discharged. Watch him at 
play, for example. Intercollegiate sports are contests 
sufficiently earnest to stand as types of the struggle of 
life. The American college student in his athletic rela- 
tions appears to me to exhibit marked defects in man- 
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athletic sport, but I cannot close my eyes to the fact 
that an intercollegiate contest — such as a college baseball 
game — almost invariably involves an exhibition of bad 
manners on the part of players and spectators, which is 
explicable only on one hypothesis; and that is, the ab- 
sence of a proper standard of consideration for the rights 
and feelings of others. 

And what of the morals of intercollegiate sport? In 
the breast of every contestant an inward struggle is in 
progress. On one side is the animal's fighting 
instinct reinforced by a will trained to press for 
victory with the man's whole might. On the other 
side, there is the half-hearted (and less than half- 
heeded) declaration by some college official or 
some decrepit alumnus that it is better to play 
fair and lose than to play foul and win. What a one- 
sided conflict ! And then there is the question of pro- 
fessionalism. You will observe that I am considering 
only the moral aspect of the matter. Wisely, or un- 
wisely, the principle of amateur sport is accepted and 
embodied in stringent rules; but by all sorts of un- 
worthy and even puerile expedients and devices the 
principle is violated, and the violation is accepted as 
inevitable. Here again I perceive the absence of a defin- 
ite standard of conduct and the lack of motive suffi- 
ciently strong to compel obedience to it. Perhaps you 
will say that the number of men engaged in college ath- 
letics is very small in comparison with the whole number 
of students, and that, for this reason, my criticism is not 
well founded. I reply that I am not speaking merely 
of the participants in the games, but of all the individ- 
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opinion. Moreover, I claim to have discovered the want 
of purpose and motive by a study of college men of 
many kinds — not only athletes, by any means. I men- 
tion competitive athletics only as exhibiting in a single 
field the fruits of a purposeless life. Do not suppose 
that I am suggesting or advocating the abolition of in- 
tercollegiate sport. Such a course impresses me as 
demonstrably unsound. An educator might as well 
advocate the withdrawal of students to the cloister in 
order to escape all of the stress of life's struggle. What 
I am interested in is the developm.ent of men fit to be 
trusted at play as well as at work; men with an abiding 
sense of responsibility; men with consideration for the 
feelings of others ; men with a fixed purpose in life and 
a compelling motive behind it — men out of whom a 
nation, and a church, and a home can be built. 

What is the cause of the conditions which I have out- 
lined? I contend that the cause is not far to seek. 
Religion has had, for at least a generation, too little a 
place in our institutions of learning. Higher education 
long ago came to be a synonym for mere intellectualism. 
Then we realized that the student had a body as well as 
a mind, and we began in a systematic way to lay proper 
stress on physical development. So far so good : but 
we have hitherto neglected the soul. We have starved 
our students spiritually. We have no right to expect 
anything but the disproportionate and unsymmetrical 
product that has been developed. 

Some one will, of course, ask what I mean by religion. 
I should not pause to answer the babbler who confuses 
religion with hypocrisy on the one hand and with fanati- 
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reply that I do not mean the shadowy thing pursued by 
many of the distinguished delegates to the "International 
Moral Education Congress" which recently met in Lon- 
don — although I hasten to add that the convening of 
such a meeting seems to me to be a most significant 
thing. By religion I mean Christianity — which, to me, 
is the religion — and by Christianity I mean the recog- 
nition of Jesus Christ as the Master of the race, the 
acceptance of His leadership as the solution of life's 
problem and loyalty to Him as supplying a universal 
standard of conduct and an all-compelling motive for 
right living. I do not forget that there are many men 
about us who are walking caricatures of Christianity. It 
is not a lack of their spirit which has made young men 
less splendid than they ought to be. I am insisting that 
true Christ-likeness is the goal of education, and I am 
deploring a system which emphasizes the mind and body 
to the neglect of the soul. Would that we had not for- 
gotten that "holiness" means "wholeness." Were it not 
so, I could say without any danger of being misunder- 
stood that the highest education aims to make holy men. 
I do not think it can be disputed that our colleges and 
universities have done less than they ought in this mat- 
ter. One may say "my alma mater is not at fault. We 
have done all that should be expected of us." If this 
can be said with truth of any institution, it can be said 
of Haverford. You have done well, and you are reaping 
the fruits of your well doing in the recognized character 
of your sons. But (if I may suggest it without offense) 
compare what is with what might have been. If you- 
make this comparison, you will surely renew your reso- 
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discussion impersonal. It is not of Haverford, but of 
colleges and universities generally that I am speaking. 
See how little they have done ! There are, it is true, the 
chapel services, attendance upon which is compulsory 
or optional as the case may be. But of what value is 
service if they know not Him whom they serve? 
Bring a man by teaching and example within the influ- 
ence of Christ, and you will find him eager for the 
service which then becomes an expression of his loyalty. 
But a chapel service or a meeting without the prepara- 
tion of fundamental teaching is worse than a sham. If 
it is compulsory, mere attendance signifies nothing. If 
it is optional, most of the benches will be empty, and 
among those who attend, many will be present merely 
from a sense of decency or in obedience to a promise 
made at home. 

I do not wish to be censorious, but I am impelled to say 
that the sins of the colleges have not been merely sins of 
omission. Not only have they often failed to proclaim 
the true standard of living, but they have often been 
hospitable to false standards. In days gone by the stu- 
dent sought a college education. To-day it may be said 
that the college education seeks the student. Educators 
of standing, college officers of high position, seek to 
induce students to enter their respective institutions by 
methods scarcely distinguishable from those that make 
life insurance men our constant visitors. The question 
whether there is in the institution a wholesome, manly 
spirit and about it a religious atmosphere, is not much 
considered. The test of success is growth in numbers. 
There is not a little unfriendly rivalry as between differ- 
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and the students themselves fully realize it. None of our 
colleges are old, but those less new than the others feel 
themselves to be in a more assured position, and they 
occasionally betray a snug self-satisfaction and an ill- 
concealed contempt for the institutions that are climbing 
up hill, such as that which we often observe in the vulgar 
rich who have lately achieved social position. Instead of 
standing as a bulwark against hurtful tendencies in the 
commercial and social world, the university itself is 
brought into captivity to the very influences which it 
should counteract. 

Then, too, the colleges and universities often have upon 
their teaching forces those whose doctrine and influence 
is distinctly unchristian and irreligious. Nov/ I do not 
for a moment contend that freedom of speech and lib- 
erty of thought are to be curtailed in our institutions of 
higher learning. I do contend, however, that it is a sin 
deserving of the millstone to allow a student to stumble 
for want of a light sufficiently strong to enable him to 
see clearly the obstacle which such a teacher is putting in 
his way. A college ought not to afford the luxury of an 
aggressive antichristian teacher unless it can also afford 
to have the same subject ably handled for the same 
students by a man competent to present the other side. 
I believe that Pragmatism is just now the popular phil- 
osophy in the class room. I understand that, according 
to the pragmatist, "The True is the name of whatever 
proves itself to be good in the way of belief, and good, 
too, for definite, assignable reasons." I hold that belief 
in Our Lord as Our Master and Friend is a belief that 
has abundantly proved itself to be good, and that for its 
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belief satisfies likewise the corollary to the pragmatist's 
proposition — namely, that the belief shall not inci- 
dentally clash with some other vital benefits. I assert 
that the facts of history have created such a presump- 
tion in favor of the validity of the Christian position that 
no college authorities ought to permit an attack upon it 
without provision for a calm and clear counter-statement. 
As it is, the destructive critic has an advantage grossly 
unfair. His teaching accords with the inclinations of his 
students. He easily wins bloodless victories. The col- 
leges and universities are full of students untrained in 
Christian philosophy who have been made to stumble by 
such clever and popular instructors. 

But some one will say that I am not taking into ac- 
count the religious awakening discernible among stu- 
dents throughout the land. I have not ignored this. It 
seems to me in fact to be one of the countless witnesses 
to the vitality of the religion of Christ. I beg you to 
observe, however, that this revival has in almost every 
instance originated among the students themselves. It 
is a protest against official apathy. It is the struggle for 
daily bread on the part of sons whose fathers have 
offered them a stone. It is true that such an origin is a 
guarantee of the wholesomeness and healthfulness of 
the movement. This consideration, however, is no justi- 
fication for a neglect of duty by college officers. It is 
not enough that college students should be left free to 
develop their own religious life. Those who dominate 
and control the policy of the colleges and universities, 
both trustees and faculties, should be known in the 
community as men who believe that religion is essential 
to perfect development. 

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Your next question is a fair one. It is this: Assum- 
ing some official duty in this matter, how is it to be dis- 
charged ? Let me reply, in the first place, that the recog- 
nition of the duty is a large part of what I am contend- 
ing for. If we could convert the trustees and overseers 
and make them realize that a responsibility rests upon 
them quite as weighty as the responsibility for the re- 
ligious training of their own children, we should be ac- 
complishing much. The fact is that, without the active 
co-operation of trustees, it is hard for members of the 
faculty to do much. They are overburdened with class- 
room work. The competition between men in their re- 
spective departments is keen. To allow Bible class work, 
mission study and other forms of definite Christian 
activity to count as part of a teacher's weekly labors 
would accomplish wonders in a short time. There are 
two books, which if read and assimilated by every college 
officer, would almost transform the college world. One 
is, "The Reproach of the Gospel" — the Bampton Lec- 
tures at Oxford for 1907. The other is, "Leadership" 
— the Noble Lectures at Harvard for the same year. 

Of course, I do not ignore the difficulties that must be 
met in so-called non-sectarian institutions. In this re- 
spect, colleges like Haverford enjoy a great and won- 
derful opportunity, for you are not seriously hampered 
in the proclamation of the faith that is in you. But 
everywhere it is possible for the authorities to stimulate 
and even insist upon the formation of student groups 
among men of the same communion, students and faculty 
mingling in the groups on equal terms. The Christian 
Association can aid in forming such groups, can work 
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those who as yet have no church connection. Each group 
will become a center of Christian activity. In the 
groups will be engendered a spirit that will manifest 
itself in great college meetings, and that will convert 
formal religious services into expressions of real devo- 
tion. In such an atmosphere true nobility of character 
quickly develops. There is nothing unmanly, no sickly 
sentiment, no cant, no hypocrisy. Religion is seen to con- 
sist in the loyalty of strong men to a Leader stronger than 
the strongest, and in intimate association with a Friend 
nearer than the nearest. A single purpose gives unity to 
each man's life. In the power of an all-compelling 
motive he goes from strength to strength. 

My dear friends, it is no fantastic plea that I am 
making. I speak forth, however imperfectly, the words 
of truth and soberness. I stand here a churchman, with 
definite convictions respecting the conditions under which 
Christianity is at its best. But I am praying for and 
seeking to manifest, "largeness of soul — magnanimity, 
as we call it. It is the grace that does not carp at what 
it cannot understand, or it fails to agree with ; that 
avoids controversy, except as a last resort, and when it 
is forced to it conducts it on the highest plane ; that 
deprecates proselytism and scorns to build up its walls 
with materials torn out of a neighbor's edifice ; that looks 
for and welcomes evidences of God's spirit wherever the 
Gospel is sincerely preached." 

In so speaking. I use the language of one of the lec- 
turers to whom I have already referred. Let me quote 
also from the other : 

"It is a hard saying, but a wholesome one, that the 
great majority of mankind have for centuries done every- 

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thing with the Moral Rule of the Gospel except obey it. 
They have read it aloud in their churches and their 
homes; they have enshrined it in a magnificent system 
of worship; they have glossed and commented it, till it 
bears a suspicious resemblance to the code which they 
find most profitable and convenient; they have shaped 
and trimmed it to fit into a corner of an otherwise pagan 
existence. But we must try once more to receive it in its 
entirety and simplicity; we must clear our minds of the 
conventions which dispense us from its obligations, and 
the exegesis which dilutes its meaning. We must go 
behind the mediaeval Church, behind the First Six Cen- 
turies, the Saints, the Fathers, even behind Saint Paul, 
and seek our inspiration once more where he sought it, 
in the Master Himself. I believe the secret lies in abso- 
lute unqualified obedience to Christ's plain teaching as 
He spoke it. That teaching, as we find it in the Gospels, 
is a small body of positive precept; it seems to me per- 
fectly clear in meaning, and almost wholly ethical, laying 
stress on character and on conduct as the necessary test 
of character. 'Except ye be converted, and become as 
little children, ye shall in no wise enter into the King- 
dom of Heaven. By their fruits ye shall know them : 
do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ?' " 

It is for training in such Christianity that I plead. It 
ought not to be hard to persuade you Haverfordians to 
follow the leading of the Inward Light, and to find your 
perfect satisfaction in communion with Our Lord. 
Hold fast to the essential truth which underlies that for 
which Friends have stood through storm and sunshine. 
Let it be your peculiar mission to educate coming gener- 
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Haverford regard every man as dead into whom the New- 
Life has not been infused. Upon every student that 
comes within her portals let her lay a gentle hand and 
say to him in the Master's own words, "Young man, I 
say unto thee, arise." 

President Sharpless: If any one were to assert that 
it is no part of the business of a college like Haverford 
to grant honorary degrees, the statement would not be 
seriously negatived by any one of us at Haverford ; 
although our claim is, that if it is a sin for us to do this 
sort of thing, we are not as great sinners as some other 
people. (Laughter.) 

We have given but five honorary degrees within the 
last twenty years ; and we have never given a degree, 
I suppose, under conditions where it seemed probable 
that any return could possibly be made to us. (Laugh- 
ter.) Our board has decided to vary the wholesome 
practice of the past by granting on this special occasion 
the degree of Doctor of Laws to six of our own gradu- 
ates ; and if it seems selfish, and to lack college fraternity, 
that we should have confined these good things to our- 
selves, the excuse must be for us, in the first place, that 
it might be bad form for a little college like Haverford 
to offer distinguished men our degrees — a fear which 
we had no especial expectation of meeting in the case 
of our own graduates (laughter) ; but primarily because 
this seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of Haver- 
ford College is a homecoming of Haverford students, 
and we wish to recognize the fact that a great number 
of our Haverfordians have brought honor and renown 
to their college by their scholarly work. 

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As representatives of this considerable number, I now 
propose to confer the degree of Doctor of Laws upon six 
of our graduates : 

James Tyson, of the class of i860. (Applause.) To 
James Tyson, distinguished practitioner in medicine, dean 
and professor in the Medical School of the University 
of Pennsylvania, author of standard treatises in medi- 
cine, I grant the degree of Doctor of Laws on behalf 
of the corporation of Haverford College, and give to him 
all the rights and privileges belonging to that degree, 
(Hood donned, and applause.) 

Aaron Marshai^l Euliott (1866). To Aaron Mar- 
shall Elliott, professor of Romance Languages in the 
Johns Hopkins University, editor of Modern Language 
Notes, author of valuable linguistic papers, a teacher of 
influence and deserved reputation, on behalf of the cor- 
poration of Haverford College I grant the degree of 
Doctor of Laws, and with it all the rights and privileges 
belonging to that degree. (Hood donned, and applause.) 

Louis Starr (1868). To Louis Starr, distinguished 
practitioner in medicine, professor in the Medical School 
of the University of Pennsylvania, author of standard 
treatises on diseases of children, and other subjects, I 
grant the degree of Doctor of Laws on behalf of the 
corporation of Haverford College, and give to him all 
the rights and privileges belonging to that degree. 
(Hood donned, and applause.) 

Francis Barton Gum mere; (1872). (Prolonged ap- 
plause.) To Francis Barton Gummere, a teacher of bril- 
liant ability and attractiveness, an author of eminent 
merit and wide reputation, a faithful friend of Haver- 

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ford, I grant the degree of Doctor of Laws by virtue of 
the authority committed to me by the corporation of 
Haverford College, with all the rights and privileges 
belonging to the degree. (Hood donned, and applause.) 

Lewis Lyndon Hobbs (1876). To Lewis Lyndon 
Hobbs, an educator of note, who has been president of 
Guilford College through its whole history and who has 
had a marked influence in upbuilding the intellectual life 
of the community which sustains it, I grant the degree 
of Doctor of Laws on behalf of the corporation of Haver- 
ford College, and with it all the rights and privileges 
belonging to the degree. (Hood donned, and applause.) 

Theodore William Richards (1885). To Theodore 
William Richards, a professor in Harvard University of 
marked efficiency, a chemist of world-wide reputation, on 
behalf of the corporation of Haverford College I grant 
the degree of Doctor of Laws, and with it all the rights 
and privileges belonging to that degree. (Hood donned, 
and applause.) 

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SUBSCRIPTION DINNER. 

Haver ford College Dining Hall, 
October i6, ipo8, 7 P. M. 

Jamiss Wood, Toastmaster: Let us bow our heads in 
thanksgiving to our Father for his mercies and his bene- 
fits. 

(Silent grace was then observed.) 

(Banquet thereupon followed.) 
The Toastmaster: 

Haverford is very glad to welcome so many of her 
boys to the commons. Some of you of the olden time 
may not have had just the service of commons which we 
see here to-night; and Haverford wanted you to know 
what we are doing as the regular thing in this line. 
(Laughter.) We of the alumni have a great responsibil- 
ity in connection with this birthday celebration, for we 
are Haverford's exhibit. President Wilson, of Princeton, 
in the admirable address that he gave us this afternoon, 
said that in some colleges the intellectual status and 
character was given by the freshman class just coming 
in. With Haverford, her character is illustrated in her 
alumni. Indeed, the alumni of any college must vindi- 
cate its existence and its work ; and whatever others may 
say, we believe that the existence of Haverford is justi- 
fied and her work vindicated. (Laughter.) 

The question to-day is : Is Haverford old, or is she 
young? From the standpoint of those universities and 
colleges which are now in the third century of their ex- 
istence, the three-quarters of a century of Haverford's 
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scores of other colleges doing admirable work throughout 
our country regard Haverford as venerable with age. 

The fact is, that we view age altogether by our point 
of view. A friend of mine goes every year into the north- 
ern districts of Pennsylvania to get some shooting. 
There is an old gentleman in the neighborhood where 
he goes who is 94 years of age. Last spring his son, 
who was 72 years old, died ; and when my friend went 
up a week or two ago and condoled with the old gentle- 
man that Thomas had passed away, he had this reply : 
"I always felt I could never raise that boy." (Laughter.) 
And now it is said that a man is just as old as he feels 
and a woman is just as old as she looks. Our sister up 
here at Bryn Mawr looks young and very attractive, and 
we feel very jolly; so that we are quite sure that we 
are still young, and we celebrate this birthday of our 
college in the confident assurance that she has a magnifi- 
cent future before her. (Applause.) 

Haverford's future was never so assured as it is to-day 
(applause), for never before had she such officers and 
faculty, and such an equipment for her work. First of 
all she has President Sharpless. (Applause, and Haver- 
ford yell.) I believe that President Sharpless could 
make a successful college out of anything. (Applause.) 
The distinguished president of Yale University once 
said : "It is well known that all college presidents are 
liars." (Laughter.) Mind you! I didn't say that: I 
am surrounded by college presidents here, and my life 
wouldn't be worth living if I said it ; but I suppose he 
meant that from the standpoint of those members of 
the faculty who had been just a little disappointed in 
their promotion and from the standpoint of those stu- 

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dents who had been caught in the act, the president was 
so regarded. No disappointed member of the faculty 
of Haverford; no student of Haverford ever faced its 
president with any thought but that he confronted abso- 
lute truthfulness! and manly honor. (Applause, and 
"Hear! hear!") 

I am sorry to have to say these disagreeable things 
when President Sharpless is present; but if he will at- 
tend alumni dhmers, he has to take the consequences. 
As for the faculty of Haverford, they are peculiarly 
honorable and devoted men. They are all in the service 
for the love of the thing. I might say incidentally that 
the average salary at Haverford from top to bottom is 
higher than any other college or university in America. 
(Laughter.) That is, the average salary. Now I don't 
for one moment intimate that any member of the faculty 
is here on that account, or because of that fact. Haver- 
ford has used its endowment — the income from its en- 
dowment — where it would do the most good ; and it has 
believed it would do the most good in salaries, rather 
than in buildings or in any other fancy fixtures. 

We who belong to the first twenty-five years of 
Haverford's existence never attend alumni meetings 
without a deep sense of the fact that our number is be- 
coming very small. It never v/as very large ; but year by 
year the number lessens. I once walked from Haddon 
Hall in Derbyshire, England, to the quaint little village 
of Bakewell ; and as you climb up through the church- 
yard to that beautiful Norman doorway of the church, 
you find, on the left side of the path, a tombstone of a 
former clerk of the parish; and it records how magnifi- 
cent was his voice, as, in the singing of the hymns and 

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psalms, he stimulated the devotion of his hearers and 
excited their admiration. And the epitaph goes on to 
say that "While the saints on earth have sustained a great 
loss in his departure, the angels in heaven perpetually 
rejoice as they hear his voice resounding in the arches 
of heaven." With greater truth I can say that earth has 
lost, and heaven has gained many noble souls of llaver- 
fordians who have gone on before. 

On this occasion the universities of our country had 
their innings this afternoon — pretty good innings, we 
thought. We had an admirable address from the presi- 
dent of Princeton ; and while he was describing Haver- 
ford so perfectly — indeed, if we had employed him for 
the especial purpose of glorifying Haverford we could 
not possibly have had a more splendid statement than 
he made; but while he was doing this I thought of how 
much Princeton owes to the Quakers. 

To me it is an exceedingly interesting fact that when 
Charles II. gave Nova Ccosarea to Lord Berkeley and 
Sir George Carteret, they didn't want to come over here 
to govern this Nova Ccesarea, and their first selection of 
governor was Robert Barclay, of Ury, in Scotland, the 
author of the standard work of Quaker theology, "Bar- 
clay's Apology;" and the Scotch people said: "If there 
be any chance that Robert Barclay or men like him shall 
govern that province, that is the place for us" — and 
thereby started that emigration of Presbyterians from 
Scotland into New Jersey, which caused the founding of 
the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University. 
(Applause.) And, therefore, it is that when we Quakers 
want a good thing done, we call on Princeton ; we have 
a right to; and I thank President Wilson for so splen- 

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didly paying the debt (if indeed it be one), as he has 
done to-day. And then we had that remarkable address 
from a professor — an eminent member of the faculty — 
of the great and venerable University of Pennsylvania, 
an institution founded during the Revolutionary War, 
springing from a school established by Dr. Franklin, now- 
one of the great institutions of learning of the land ; with 
which institution Haverford is most happy to be on the 
most cordial terms of friendly relationship ; and I was 
not alone this afternoon in thinking as we listened to 
that address that we could point to the future Provost of 
the University of Pennsylvania. ("Hear! hear!" and 
applause.) 

And then old Harvard came ; and Harvard, with mag- 
nificent diplomatic selection, sent one of our own boys 
to bring her greeting. (Applause.) 

But the universities had their innings ; and now, to- 
night, the colleges of our own — shall I say of our own 
class ? — are going to have their say. But before we call 
upon any of the representatives of these colleges, so 
many of which have honored us by their delegates upon 
this occasion, we want to recognize the fact that we are 
in the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where 
William Penn made his Holy Experiment in government. 
We have with us to-night a person eminently qualified to 
speak for this great commonwealth — a citizen of the 
State who has had exceptional experience in public 
afifairs, commanding, at one time, a division of the army 
of the nation; at another time a distinguished governor 
of the State, and now sitting on one of the appellate judi- 
cial benches of this Commonwealth, combining in himself 
the executive and judicial functions of the Government, 

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and I have no doubt he has run the legislative part of it 
many a time, so that he has in himself combined the legis- 
lative, the judicial and the executive functions of the State 
— General Beaver. (Applause.) 

Generai, Beaver. Mr. Toastmaster, Fellow-Colle- 
gians in general, and Haverfordians in particular: 

We are very much the creatures of environment, and 
to me just at this moment, and indeed for the most part 
of this day, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, for 
which you have asked me to speak, is embodied in 
Haverford. (Applause.) 

I cannot express to you in words precisely what I 
expected to find when I came here. I am the represent- 
ative of the Pennsylvania State College, and, as such, 
have, of course, known something of Haverford. Indeed 
I have known Haverford, more or less intimately, for 
many years, have come into relations with it in many 
ways, all of them pleasant. I came to realize my ideal of 
Haverford, expecting to find it at its best to-day. That 
best is somewhat above the average of other colleges, 
with many of which I have had more or less to do in the 
more than fifty years since I left my alma mater. I tell 
you, fellows, honestly, w^hen I heard you sing, in the 
rakish way in which it was done, "Drink her down !" 
(laughter) I thought you were, after all, just about 
Hke the "world's people." (Laughter.) 

I congratulate Haverford, of course, as we all do, on 
the day and upon the occasion. It is ideal in every 
respect. Your arrangements, your surroundings, the 
day, the number and character of your visitors, the char- 
acter of the addresses which we heard this afternoon, 
the loyalty of your alumni, and the spirit of your student 

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body, are all ideal, and this banquet has demonstrated 
that we can sing "Brink her down !" without doing it. 
(Laughter and applause.) 

The time was, when a man who was called upon to 
respond for "Pennsylvania," particularly as an official, 
was expected to speak of the product of her fields and 
factories, Tier mines and mills, and he always had in them 
a subject that enabled him to say something worth the 
while for Pennsylvania, but of late years, as I have stud- 
ied her history more fully and become familiar with the 
things for which Pennsylvania stands, and those which 
are her real pride and honor, I am inclined to pay less 
attention to the material things and more to the thought 
that underlies her magnificent foundation and develop- 
ment — the thought of her founder, and that which is 
repeated and has been predominant to-day. 

The men who mold the future are the men who are 
molded here and in institutions like this. They are 
Pennsylvania's real glory and make her, and will con- 
tinue to make her, the magnificent commonwealth she is. 
The more I see of college and university life, the more I 
am convinced that the men who count for the most in 
the molding of the future are the men who are molded 
under the direct influence of the teacher who has high 
ideals and who himself stands for the highest and best in 
educational life, and I believe that such contact between 
the teacher and the taught, and the resulting influences 
therefrom, are reached to the largest extent, and with 
the best results, in our small colleges — so called — our 
great colleges in fact. 

You had the illustration of that on the platform to- 
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through this country through the akuiini of Haverford 
College. In the procession to-day I walked by the side 
of a man who is doing just such work in North Carolina 
as President Sharpless is doing in Pennsylvania. He 
was the product of Haverford. When you multiply men 
in that way, the ratio of increase is simply incredible, 
and Haverford knows not where her influence extends 
and to what it will eventually lead. It is a glad day 
for Haverford, it would be a glad day for any college, 
when she can confer the degree of Doctor of Laws 
upon six of her own graduates as representative as those 
upon whose shoulders we saw the Doctor's hood placed 
to-day — one of them a representative professor of Har- 
vard, another a president of a college like her own in 
North Carolina, and not less, as was plainly manifested, 
one of her own professors, known in educational circles 
the world over. 

We talk about William Penn, whose principles you 
delight to follow, and whose precepts you inculcate here, 
as a man who was given to peace, and so he was. It 
was his ideal, it is becoming the ideal of the world of 
to-day, and within a day or two, in one of our prominent 
daily newspapers, we are confronted, not with a peace tri- 
bunal which shall by arbitration settle all the disputes of 
the world, which is already more or less of an accom- 
plished fact ; but a peace executive who is proposed as the 
chief executive of the world powers, and who presumably 
is to execute the judgments of our final court of arbitra- 
tion which is to be, in fact has been, established at the 
Hague. Penn was a man of peace. Of that there can 
be little doubt. And yet, as I have lately re-read the 
letter which he addressed to the Emperor of Canada in 

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regard to the trade which he expected to estabHsh be- 
tween his province (which presumably in his thought 
extended to the border of Canada) and that country, 
written in the same year but prior to his first visit to his 
province, there has seemed to me to be a vein of determi- 
nation running through it which would seem to indicate 
that he was bound to have peace if he had to fight for it. 
He begins his letter by saying: "The Great God that 
made thee and me and all the world incline our hearts to 
love peace and justice, that we may live friendly together, 
as becomes the workmanship of the Great God." And 
then, after reciting the large country which "the King 
of England, who is a great prince, hath granted to me" 
(him) "which, however, I am willing to enjoy upon 
friendly terms with thee," said further : "This I will 
say that the people who come with me are a just, plain 
and honest people, who neither make war upon others nor 
fear war from others, because they will be just." For 
an old Quaker — not very old either at that time — that 
sounds to me just a little like "I dare you." (Laugh- 
ter.) That, however, may be because I misinterpret 
William Penn. 

But it comes to me just at this moment that I left 
Philadelphia on Tuesday evening last and went to my 
beautiful home town in central Pennsylvania, to be pres- 
ent at the funeral of the lieutenant-colonel of my regi- 
ment — a Quaker who had turned his back upon his 
scruples to fight the battles of his country ; who chose 
the lesser evil in order that you, and he, and all of us 
might secure the greater good. And, as I stood at the 
foot of his grave and told my comrades what an unusual 
fellow Fairlamb was (some of you who are here knew 

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him) — how brave and single-hearted, how devoted to the 
flag of his country — I looked around upon that little 
Quaker graveyard, and it was dotted here and there with 
the flags placed there by the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic at the graves of those who had served in the defense 
of their country, who were willing to sacrifice their scru- 
ples, in order that the greater good, the liberty of an 
alien and degraded race, might be achieved, and constitu- 
tional free government established forever. (Applause.) 

Fellow collegians, so long as our college men stand for 
that which is just, true and pure in government, so far as 
we stand for that which brings the highest good to the 
greatest number, we can be a controlling element in 
saving this country, but whenever we, as educated men, 
as the men to whom God in His providence has given 
the largest influence and the greatest responsibility, 
whenever we depart from the principles upon which 
William Penn founded his government, we not only 
degrade ourselves, but bring to our own level the institu 
tions which have so beneficently sheltered us in the past 
So long as we are true to the principles of our fore- 
fathers and what they gave us when they fought for, 
and won for us, our independence, so long we may keep 
our country in line with the great future which God in 
His providence has designed for us, and which we, in co- 
operation with Him (for He works through human 
means) may keep pure and unspotted for the generations 
to come. 

College men, realize your responsibility ! College men, 
rise to the height of your great opportunities and the 
largest expectations of your own and the generations to 
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have a large share in preserving for the future what 
the great founder of the principles for which this col- 
lege stands, established as the fundamentals of human 
government here in Pennsylvania. (Applause.) 

The Toastmaster : Before I call upon the representa- 
tives of those colleges to which I have referred, it is fit 
that we should first hear from one of the institutions of 
learning that occupies a unique position among the col- 
leges of our land — an institution that was founded for 
the express purpose of making original research, Clark 
University, of Massachusetts. We are fortunate in hav- 
ing with us the president of that institution, Dr. G. 
Stanley Hall, who, I hope, will speak to us upon the 
psychological moment. (Applause and cheers.) 

G. Stanley Hale: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen: 

I trust you will not view me with a critic's eye if I 
show some signs of the embarrassment that I feel in 
being called upon. For I thought I was at least twice 
exempt: once, from being perhaps an anomaly among 
college presidents in that I am no talker, least of all an 
after dinner talker; again, that I am a direct descendant 
of the Puritans, whose ancestors I suppose persecuted 
you in the old days. (Laughter.) 

This certainly has been a most memorable day for me. 
I don't know when I have learned so much, and had so 
many old conceptions set right. It has not only been a 
most joyful day; for I have participated most heartily 
with your festivities and sympathized with you, because 
I am a Williams man, and Williams has ideals not very 
unlike your own; but I have had a great many of my 
ideas upset. 

For instance, we always used to read — in fact, it is 

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almost proverbial, as you know — that old college cus- 
toms never can be reversed. Those who know the his- 
tory of education, know that sometimes very trivial stu- 
dent customs are three, four or five centuries old in Ger- 
many, especially in England, and even in France ; but 
to-day we had an account from President Wilson of a 
policy, which, if I understand it aright (and it is some- 
thing the whole country is interested in) has directly 
reversed, in some important respects, the inveterate tra- 
ditions of student life that have gone on for many gener- 
ations of students. 

Another idea that has been rubbed into us a great 
many ways and a good many times, is this : that it was 
a very good thing for American graduates, if they want 
to perfect themselves and advance research, to go to 
Germany; and we have often had it impressed upon us 
that the apex of our educational system was in another 
country ; but we listened to-day to one of your own grad- 
uates who has reversed that maxim, and Germany has 
wanted to sit at the feet of one of your graduates and 
an American scholar. (Applause.) 

And then I have seen a good deal of that atmosphere 
which prevails, alas ! more than I wish it did, in New 
England — that atmosphere that regards religion as some- 
thing rather remote from the interests of science. I think 
that there is a growing conception in many parts of our 
academic America to-day that God is not unlike some 
men : He does one thing in His works — Nature — which 
science studies ; and He says another thing in His word — 
the Bible. Now it is high time that that conception of 
any discrepancy between the heart of nature out of which 
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was done away with; and I could not but think of what 
has been done in Paris, where 5,0(X> students — where, 
again, an academic tradition has been reversed — stu- 
dents who are perhaps rather more averse to religion 
than those of many other countries ; 5,000 of them came 
together to celebrate what is called the Neo-Christianity : 
a Christianity, namely, that recognizes most of the best 
results of the higher criticism, but says that thereby 
Scripture is re-revealed as the world's great text-book 
in psychology, revealing the most intimate soul history of 
the most remarkable race in the world and epitomizing 
the whole philosophy of history. The fact is, if there 
is anything that we need regeneration about, it is about 
our views of the Bible. It is only a year ago that I 
undertook, with the aid of an assistant, to make a simple 
bit of study by asking professors in English in a good 
many different colleges, to answer for me, kindly, a set 
of questions about the knowledge of the Bible in their 
class-rooms ; and with hardly an exception, the verdict of 
these professors was, that the average student to-day 
knows, I might say, "disgracefully little about the Bible" 
— not enough, as was said over and over again in differ- 
ent phrases, to even understand a great many of the com- 
mon literary allusions to it. 

For one cannot understand English literature, happily, 
very well without knowing something, at least, of the 
Bible. So it is high time that some sort of chair was 
established recognizing the new light that is being re- 
vealed — some of it, to be sure, by the spade — some of it 
by the studies of ancient manuscripts, others by the appli- 
cations of psychology — making the Bible stand forth in a 
new light as a product, if nothing else, of an inspired 

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race; and I believe that we are coming to realize that it 
is essential, not only for general culture and for religion, 
but even for the English language, though I am happy 
to say that one of my correspondents from one of the 
great universities on the Pacific Coast told me that any 
man could get into that college now if he did not know a 
single word of anything else except the English Bible: 
they will examine and admit now on that alone. 

There is one more thing I think we ought to mention 
perhaps, on an occasion like this : there are to-day, as 
you know, thousands of the ablest, brightest men who 
are leading lives of hermits and monks, lives of seclu- 
sion ; they have deliberately chosen to know one thing, 
even at the expense of knowing almost nothing about 
other things ; and they are content to spend laborious days 
and lives if, at the end, they may contribute one tiny brick 
to the great structure of science, the grandest creation 
of man. 

Science is coming not only to re-reveal God in the 
world, but it is coming to be the key not only of health, 
hygiene, longevity, as we heard this afternoon from Pro- 
fessor Richards ; but it is coming to be the basis of 
modem civilization and of all the various industries 
which underlie it. We are coming to understand that 
the world is one harmonious, lawful whole ; and al- 
though we have got but a little Vv^ays, apparently, the com- 
parative psychologist is on hand to-day with his proof, 
as he believes — partly from the past history of civiliza- 
tion, partly from the very study of the brain itself — that 
man to-day is in his infancy. He is not senile and de- 
crepit, but the best history is not yet written. Why? 
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that has been is only the prelude to a greater period that 
is yet to come; that even the brain has more germinal 
cells in it than it has developed neurons ; and that even 
though we may not realize the hygienic ideal of the 
average man living to be over a hundred, perhaps one 
hundred and twenty, we are upon the threshold of a 
great new departure that is lifting the race of the man 
up toward the plane of the superman. 

Everything to me seems to indicate that the best things 
are yet to come; and that therefore the enthusiasm and 
the euphoria which has its best home in the hearts of our 
academic youth, and which keep even us older men 
young, so long as its founts are fresh and flowing in our 
souls. The best thing in us says : "Live, live, for the 
future!" (Applause.) 

The; Toastmaster: You know the great Gladstone 
once said that the greatest work ever thrown oflf from 
human intellect at any one time was the Constitution of 
the United States of America. Among those who ex- 
erted, we may say, a chief influence in that immortal 
constitutional convention, was John Dickinson, of Penn- 
sylvania. The good that he did was not interred with 
his bones ; but he left two great monuments in the State 
of Pennsylvania that have done their beneficent work 
for the past century or more: one, Westtown Boarding 
School in Chester County; the other, Dickinson College, 
at Carlisle. We cannot regret that that good Quaker, 
John Dickinson, divided his fortune as he did; because 
his name has been perpetuated in the college at Carlisle, 
while it is rarely mentioned in connection with the Qua- 
ker boarding school of Westtown. We have the good 
fortune to have with us to-night President Reed, of 

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Dickinson College, and we hope to hear from him now. 
(Applause, and Haverford yell.) 

President Reed: Mr. Toastmaster and Gentlemen of 
Haverford: 

It is certainly very gratifying to me to be able to be 
present on this festal occasion, and to bring to Haver- 
ford College, to her honored president, and to her dis- 
tinguished faculty and alumni the cordial greetings and 
congratulations of the venerable college I have the honor 
to serve — a college which has but recently celebrated the 
125th anniversary of her foundation — which ranks as 
the eleventh in the country in point of age — 
and which, as your toastmaster has observed, bears 
the name of one of the greatest of the men of 
the revolutionary period — himself a prominent mem- 
ber of the religious body under whose auspices 
this college exists, who bequeathed to the institu- 
tion which he was largely instrumental in bringing into 
existence as her first benefaction a sum of money — 
$5,000, which while but a bagatelle in our day, was at 
that day a munificent and princely gift. Harvard, with 
her millions in plant and endowment funds, had as her 
financial basis the gift from John Harvard of a similar 
sum, while Yale had as her foundation but a library of 
one hundred volumes, the contribution of a handful of 
clergymen who, not having money to give, gave what 
they could illy spare, a collection of books. 

In June last, Dickinson celebrated the 125th anniver- 
sary of her foundation, even as to-day Haverford cele- 
brates her seventy-fifth. On that occasion we had 
hoped for the presence of our good friend. President 
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his own commencement duties, he sent as his representa- 
tive the handsomest member of his faculty in the person 

of Dr. . (Laughter and applause.) I make 

that statement with fear and trembling, knowing that 
some at least of his associates in the faculty will at once 
say that the observation just made by General Beaver 
to the effect "that all college presidents are liars," has a 
fresh illustration in the person of the college president 
now addressing you. (Laughter.) 

Ge^neral Beaver: He can put it on to me, fellows; 
it doesn't hurt. I didn't say it all the same. 

President Reed : It sounded a good deal like you. 
General. 

General Beaver : That is more like it. 

President Reed : I have been in the State of Penn- 
sylvania for but a comparatively brief period ; long 
enough, however, to have discovered two things, namely : 
first, that the average Pennsylvanian thinks that Penn- 
sylvania is the biggest State of the Federal Union; and 
second, that a graduate of Haverford invariably regards 
Haverford as the biggest institution in the State of 
Pennsylvania. Indeed, after the extremely modest ob- 
servations that have been made here to-night by the toast- 
master and other Haverfordians, I am prepared to believe 
that the average Haverfordian believes that Haverford 
is a little ahead of anything in the United States ; an 
opinion to which even the distinguished president of 
Princeton this afternoon gave notable endorsement. 
(Laughter.) I feel quite sure that he was a Pennsyl- 
vanian and Haverfordian of whom I read the other day 
who, making a tour of Europe, was so convinced of the 
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Pennsylvania, that his constant observation, whenever 
he chanced to see anything that was pretty good, was 
that "Pennsylvania was a little ahead." Finally, they 
took him down to Rome. He stood on the banks of the 
historic Tiber. "Well," he said, "the Tiber is pretty 
good, but it doesn't begin to compare with the Schuylkill 
for purity, and Pennsylvania is ahead." They saw some 
of the buildings of the Eternal City; they were "pretty 
fair; but the old dining hall of Haverford was a little 
ahead in point of architecture, after all." Finally they 
took him down into the catacombs. He was not im- 
pressed even by the catacombs. Some of the graveyards 
around Haverford were "a little ahead, even, of the cata- 
combs." Finally he went to sleep, and they heaped all 
the bones they could find around him, and lighting a can- 
dle, left, and sat down to watch him. After an hour 
he woke up, a little embarrassed by the unusual surround- 
ings ; but finally he said, "Well, this must be the morning 
of the resurrection, and I am the first man out. Haver- 
ford is still ahead." (Laughter). After all I have heard 
here to-day from various gentlemen, I am sure that that 
is the feeling of every stalwart Haverfordian, and I am 
equally sure that we who are here as visitors are quite 
prepared to share in the enthusiasm manifested by every 
son of this historic and most useful college, as he con- 
templates her long and splendid history. 

I was especially delighted with the addresses (and 
when I say this I speak the sentiment of all, I am sure, 
who are here) delivered in Roberts Hall this after- 
noon. I was pleased to see the emphasis laid upon an 
idea which ought to become more and more pronounced 
in the life of this Republic — particularly in the college 

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life — the idea that the college is not simply the place for 
the development of technical scholarship, but rather for 
the development of an all-round manhood, to the end 
that the college man may gain the discipline and the 
training in the days of his college life which will qualify 
him to become an efficient and effective member of the 
body politic, concerned in whatever pertains to the wel- 
fare of the human race; an idea, I trust, that will be 
emphasized at all the colleges and universities of this 
country. I remember in reading the history of the col- 
lege I have the honor to represent, the insistence, placed 
again and again by the men who founded the college, 
upon the great idea that the college was established for 
the training of men for the service of the State and 
the service of the Church. In their anticipation, the great 
point or object of education would be the training of 
men for the high service of the State and of the Church. 
Of course technical scholars will be developed in all 
these institutions of learning who will take advanced 
positions as scholars ; but the great mass of college men 
ought to have the training which will enable them to 
interest themselves in affairs of public moment, refusing 
to stand aloof when duty calls them either to the service 
of the Church or the service of the State. I have been 
delighted since I have been in Pennsylvania to find in 
the distinguished president of Haverford a man of this 
high type — a live man, a good scholar and student, but 
also a man who never seems to have hesitated to do his 
part as a citizen of the great Commonwealth, (Ap- 
plause.) Indeed, there has been no cause of reform in 
Pennsylvania which I can recall, in the last twenty years, 
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President Sharpless, of Haverford College. (Applause.) 
Conspicuous for the splendid service he has rendered to 
the college, he has served the State with equal fidelity. 
1 should think it would be a very delightful thing to be 
the president of Haverford College. I understand that 
the president of Haverford is forever free of any of 
the harassing cares that rest upon Dr. Swain, upon 
myself, and other college presidents, with regard to 
financial matters. (Laughter.) Here is no anxiety, 
here no sleepless nights, here no deficits — more money 
than they can spend ; so much more, indeed, that, as I 
understand, a proposition is now being mooted to in- 
crease the salaries of the professors of Haverford in 
order to prevent an embarrassing surplus in the treasury 
of the college ! What a delightful thing. Dr. Swain, it 
must be, to be president of Haverford College ! I wish 
there were a vacancy in the faculty at the present time. 
(Laughter.) I hope that the great ideals for which 
Haverford has stood will be perpetuated. She has 
always stood for the clean things of college life, even 
for clean athletics. I have never heard of anything in 
any sense disreputable in connection with the affairs in 
that department of the college life in which students are 
so profoundly interested. Rather has she been noted for 
the absence from college life of many things which are 
too disgracefully prevalent in the experiences of other 
colleges. Her aim seems to have been the development 
of men ; and the cry of the age, the expectation of the 
age, in regard to all these colleges and universities — 
an expectation which must not be disappointed, because 
the country looks, as one of the speakers has said, to the 
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and for the exponents of the highest and best things, the 
cry of the country is, "Give us men." As an expression 
of this call of the age perhaps I cannot do better than to 
quote the lines of a little poem quoted by an English 
bishop in a recent address in Exeter Hall, London, the 
utterance of which evoked thunders of hearty English 

cheers : 

"Give us men — 
Men from every rank, 
Fresh and free and frank: 
Men of thought and reading, 
Men of light and leading, 
Freedom's welfare speeding; 
Men of faith and not of faction. 
Men of lofty aim, and action — 
Give us men, I say again. 
Give us men. 

Give us men — 

Strong and stalwart men : 

Men whom highest hope inspires, 

Men whom purest honor fires. 

Men who make their country wreathe them 

And her noble sons, worthy of their sires ; 

Men who do not fail their brothers, 

Men who do not shame their mothers — 

Give us men, I say again. 

Give us men. 

Give us men — 

Men who, when the tempest gathers, 

Grasp the standard of their fathers, 

In the thickest fight; 

True as truth, though lorn and lonely. 

Tender as the brave are only; 

Men who tread where saints have trod, 

Men for country, home, and God, 

Give us men, I say again — again. 

Give us men." 

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From the grand old college which to-day celebrates the 
seventy-fifth anniversary of her foundation, every year of 
her illustrious life, have gone forth scores of men of this 
high description. God grant that in the coming years 
the stately procession may be continued. (Applause.) 

Tiii; ToASTMASTUR : From the time that David Brain- 
ard did his missionary work among the Indians at "the 
F'orks of the Delaware," there has gone from that local- 
ity the best of influence throughout Pennsylvania and 
the whole land. To-day Lafayette College from the 
forks of the Delaware continues the good influence that 
has so long emanated from that locality. I have for the 
first time learned to-day that Lafayette and Haverford 
are twins. Now I have heard it said that where there are 
twins, one is usually born first. I do not know much 
about this, for I never have had twins myself. Now it 
seems that of these twin colleges Lafayette was born a 
few months before Haverford, and she celebrated her 
seventy-fifth anniversary a few months ago. It is rather 
suggestive to the Haverford alumni that the Lafayette 
alumni on that occasion raised a half million dollars for 
their college. I suppose that notwithstanding the re- 
marks of the last speaker, Haverford would be quite will- 
ing to receive a half million on this occasion. But Lafa- 
yette, so closely associated with Haverford in point of 
time of its or;?^anization, is represented here to-night by 
her distinguished president, Dr. Warfield, and we hope 
to hear from him. (Applause, and Haverford yell.) 

President Warfield : Mr. Toastmaster, President 
Sharp! ess and Gentlemen: 

I am happy in being permitted to bring you greetings 
from the sister college nearest to you in age. Founded 

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at the same time, they began their courses with widely 
different ideals. But time and the mellowing influences 
of noble thought wrought into worthy lives, have 
brought them into closer fellowship and better under- 
standing. There was a time when the Friend looked 
askance at the Scotch-Irish Presbyterian, but not only 
does my presence at this board attest that that time is 
long since past; the head of my own alma mater, Presi- 
dent Wilson, and General Beaver share with me your 
generous hospitality. 

"The old order changeth yielding place to new, 
And God fulfills Himself in many ways 
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." 

Tho' we mark progress in many things and closer 
agreement in most, there is a serious difficulty in the 
minds of some of us in being quite sure of what we mean 
by the words we most often use. You have done us a 
favor to-day in "demonstrating" for us the small col- 
lege. When I went to Lafayette we used to talk of it 
as a college of about 200 men, then of 400, now I hear 
talk of 500 being the right size. But here we have seen 
the "real thing." To look upon it is to feel its charm. 
We are well impressed with your evident obedience to the 
biblical injunction: "Be content with such things as you 
have." 

I used to think that command meant be happy though 
poor. But you have found a better way in your content- 
ment here where there is plainly neither poverty of purse 
nor yet of spirit. 

Rich in your grounds, and in your buildings; richer 
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HAVERFORD COLLEGE. 

now at this birthday feast; you possess an asset in the 
individuality which so strikingly marks this college. 

Our age seems unable to conceive unity except in uni- 
formity. We must all dress alike, eat alike, write alike, 
think alike. It matters not what we like, we must copy 
the majority, and follow in the mad whirl of those who 
seek to imitate in senseless and tasteless mimicry the 
latest mode in speech and conduct. There has never 
been a great man, a great institution, a great nation 
without a distinct and distinguishing individuality. Our 
youth should be trained to cherish and to cultivate such 
an individuality. And our colleges cannot so train them 
unless they themselves possess it. This college pos- 
sesses I have said, its charm ; it possesses also, I believe, 
its courage. This is a precious possession, and to its sons 
will be a priceless heritage. 

Perhaps the greatest thing about the college, as dis- 
tinguished, for example, from the university, or from 
business Hfe, is that it has found the secret of perpetual 
youth. Year by year the full tide comes flooding in, 
year by year the refluent tide sweeps the matured ele- 
ments out. Youth and strength and hopefulness, the 
beauty of the morning, the hope of the morrow, the joy 
of the unvexed soul, the trust of the unspoiled faith ! 
These are hers. They are hers to enjoy, to live with and 
to grow strong on ; hers to ripen and inform and inspire 
with the memories of the past for the achievements of 
the future. 

One thing has always impressed me here — the likeness 
to the great English public schools. There is nothing 
more delightful than the antique charm of such a school 
as Eton, — the splendid background of centuries of tradi- 

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tion, the sturdy strength of the proved men who teach, 
the plastic youth of those who shall interpret the glories 
of the past to the England that is about to be. 

President Hall, who knows more about "adolescence" 
than all of us put together, has referred to the conserva- 
tism of youth. How insignificant is this to a college ! 
Seizing upon this trait and giving it a great aim and a 
sound basis, the college makes of it the instrument of a 
noble patriotism and a sincere faith. The boy who is 
inspired with an ambition to see that his country shall 
"copy fair its past" can hardly fail to play a worthy part 
as a citizen. The boy who learns the solemn beauty of 
his people's religious past can scarcely fail to bear its gra- 
cious glory to an era yet unborn. 

Of one thing we may be assured. There is to-day a 
trumpet call for men ; for men who believe in the high- 
est things, who are not mere utilitarians in science, who 
recognize the value of research and that research is 
worth all that it costs in laborious days and wakeful 
nights ; for men who believe in the value of scholarship, 
who can catch again the glory of the great Attic age 
when men truly spoke winged words, and were inspired 
by the great thoughts they bodied forth ; for men who 
believe in the permanence of the great ideals of human 
liberty and count them as something more than dreams 
and memories, who are ready to uphold them at what- 
ever cost, mindful of the fact that, however sweet peace 
may be, the sword and the battle axe have first been 
used for the purposes for which they were wrought 
before they could be beaten into ploughshares and pruning 
hooks. 

When I see beside me here my old friend, Mr. Smiley, 

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who so often has bidden me to come and sit with him at 
Lake Mohonk in the council of those who beHeve in 
international arbitration, I cannot but be reminded of 
what a single man can accomplish who thoroughly be- 
lieves that ideals can be made flesh. 

And if ever a great ideal was made flesh, it was in 
Him who must continue to be as He has been in the past, 
the ideal of our colleges. "The Word was made fiesh and 
dwelt among us." May that Word of Truth continue 
to be constantly materialized before our eyes, teaching 
us that dishonesty, whether individual, corporate or offi- 
cial, is not only a thing wicked in itself, but a thing 
shameful in the face of our great Christian civilization. 
We sometimes speak as though there were no great prob- 
lems for us to solve. There is no greater problem than 
the one that is daily thrust upon us of appreciating the 
power of Christianity to dissipate the clouds of hatred 
and bitterness that part men by this white light of Truth. 
How unworthy are class distinction and race prejudice 
among men who, calling themselves Americans, are glad 
to sit at the feet of the great Greek thinkers like Plato 
and Aristotle, to learn the great lessons of life and of 
science from men like Dante and Galileo, and to receive 
great spiritual truths from Jews like David and Isaiah. 
We talk of the liberal spirit of our culture, and our pro- 
fessors are trained in the universities of every land, but 
the greatest lessons of life in these things, as in all others, 
are to be learned at the feet of Him who was the uni- 
versal man because He was more than man. 

May the trumpet call which is arousing the colleges 
of our country to a deeper sense of the power of scholar- 
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to the joy of a serener faith. When we hear a man like 
the layman who spoke to us this afternoon reminding us 
of our spiritual duties, shall not we who are preachers of 
the Gospel renew our pledges to develop not only clear 
minds in sound bodies, but also the finer spiritual life 
which is the scholar's crowning blessing. 

The^ Toastmaster: We have in our near neighbor- 
hood a sister college for which Haverford has a very 
high regard — the College of Swarthmore, and I would 
ask President Swain, of Swarthmore, to make some re- 
marks to us. (Applause, and Haverford yell.) 

President Swain : Mr. President, Dr. Sharpless, 
Haverfo rdians : 

It gives me pleasure, as the representative of Swarth- 
more College, to join to-night with the other colleges and 
universities in giving greeting to Haverford College on 
the occasion of its seventy-fifth anniversary. (Ap- 
plause.) 

I wish to speak very briefly and very informally on 
three of the characteristics of Haveiford College which 
seem to me greatly to her credit. With all due respect 
to college faculties, I believe that the greatest educational 
influence in the modern college is the association of the 
students with each other. This association counts for 
most it seems to me, when the students are gathered 
together in a residence college, where they live together 
in dormitories and take their meals in a common dining- 
room. It has been my privilege to work in three different 
institutions. In one of these all the students live in pri- 
vate homes ; in another, part of the students live in resi- 
dence halls and a part in private homes, and in still 
another, like Haverford, where all excepting those who 

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live in their own homes, Hve in the dormitories of the 
college. After my experience in the three institutions re- 
ferred to, it seems to me there is a richness of life that 
comes to the students dwelling together in a small col- 
lege that cannot be gained in any other way. 

In the second place, Plaverford is one of the few col- 
leges in America that has had the courage, after it 
secured a million dollars of endowment, to remain a small 
college, engaging chiefly in the work of liberal training. 
In The World Almanac for 1908 1 find there are fifty- 
one institutions of higher learning that have an endow- 
ment of a million dollars or more. I believe there are 
only six colleges in this list with an endowment of a 
million dollars or more that have remained small col- 
leges, defining a "small college" to be one with about 
five hundred students. That Haverford is one of these 
six means much to the life of this institution. 

I fear that some of you thought it was merely the 
enthusiastic remark of an alumnus when it was said that 
the members of the facull)- in this institution are better 
paid than the faculty of any other institution in this 
country. You may not all have seen the statistics re- 
ferred to, published by the Carnegie Foundation, in which 
Haverford is given the credit of paying its professors 
the highest salaries of any small institution in this coun- 
try, and higher than any excepting a few of the larger 
and wealthier institutions. 1 believe that the figures pub- 
lished by the Carnegie Board will justify the statement 
of your chairman that no educational institution in this 
country is doing better by its teachers as a body than 
Haverford College. (Applause.) This will mean much 
to Haverford in the future. ]\Ir. Chairman, I congratu- 

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late not only the faculty of Haverford, but Haverford 
itself because this is true. The institution which I rep- 
resent rejoices with you in this, not only because of the 
good that shall come to Haverford and its faculty, but 
because we believe that a step in advance made by one 
institution will help all other institutions. 

It has been said that the history of an institution of 
higher learning is but the shadow of a man. The col- 
lege which I represent is the shadow of Dr. Edward H. 
Magill. Twenty-five years ago when you celebrated your 
fiftieth anniversary. Dr. Magill was present and gave you 
greeting, and I am sure that though he has just passed to 
his reward, he is with us in spirit to-night, and will join 
with me, Mr. President, in extending to you the most 
hearty greeting. I believe that all of us can join with 
you in saying that the brilliancy of Haverford in the 
past, however great that may have been, is to the future 
as the brightness of the stars is to the brightness of the 
sun. (Applause.) 

The; Toastmaster: You all know that there is a 
goodly number of Quaker colleges scattered throughout 
the great West of the country — at Wilmington, in Ohio ; 
at Richmond, in Indiana ; at Oskaloosa, in Iowa ; at Wich- 
ita, in Kansas ; at Whittier, in California ; at Newberg, in 
Oregon. A number of these colleges are represented 
here by their presidents. The oldest of them is Earlham 
College at Richmond, Indiana ; and I ask President 
Kelly, of Earlham, to address the alumni of Haverford. 
(Applause, and Haverford yell.) 

Pre;side:nt Kelly : Mr. President, Haverfordians, 
fellow Collegians: 

I have been led to believe to-day that all Haverford- 

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ians are thoroughly conversant with the Scriptures ; and 
also I have gotten the idea, from what has been said by 
one or two speakers here, that you are in sympathy with 
the higher criticism. I think, therefore, you will appre- 
ciate an interpretation which was recently given of 
Daniel's experience in the lions' den. It is said, in expla- 
nation of that event, which ordinarily is called a miracle, 
that as soon as Daniel got into the lions' den, he went 
around to each of the lions individually and whispered 
into his ear : "As soon as dinner is over you will be 
expected to respond to a toast." (Laughter.) 

In my own case I looked forward with some pleasure 
to the privilege of speaking here from the fact that I 
recognized this as Haverford's day, and not the day of 
the other Friends' colleges ; and, therefore, not much 
would be expected of me. I bring you to-night, Haver- 
fordians, greetings from Earlham College, and from the 
sisterhood of Quaker institutions scattered throughout 
this country. I wish particularly to mention a former 
teacher of Haverford who for forty-four or forty-five 
years has been a member of the Board of Trustees of 
Earlham College, and who is universally recognized as 
one of Indiana's most valuable citizens, Timothy Nichol- 
son, of Richmond, Indiana. (Applause.) He is sorry 
he cannot be here ; and he is one of the many Haver- 
fordians scattered throughout this country who are proud 
of this institution and who glory in her achievements. 

We have ten Friends' colleges. Two of them are in 
the East, one is in the South, five are in the Mississippi 
Valley, two are on the Pacific Coast. There are several 
millions of dollars invested in educational work in these 
institutions ; they have an enrollment now, I believe, of 

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almost 3,000 students. In a very important sense most 
of them are offsprings of Haverford College, because 
the impulse which founded some of them was an impulse 
which came from Haverford and graduates of Haver- 
ford have been connected with all of them, — in the fac- 
ulties, in the presidential chairs, on the boards of trustees. 
Two of these colleges are recognized as having no supe- 
riors of their types in the United States. All but two, or 
possibly three, of them are recognized as standard col- 
leges ; and each of them is doing a magnificent work in 
its field of activity. 

It is not worth while for me to enlarge upon the ideals 
of your institution, which have been transplanted into 
these other Quaker schools throughout our country. I 
can only say that those ideals are ideals which in some 
measure or other Earlham and Penn and the rest of us 
have undertaken to incorporate into our life ; and we are 
somewhat proud of the men that have gone forth from 
our walls, because they have had something of the same 
sort of spirit that has been fostered here and has been 
handed over to us. Without generalizing along this 
line I might give you a concrete illustration. We have 
a graduate of our institution who for a number of years 
has been a postmaster in Oklahoma. A short time ago 
the postmasters of the United States had a convention at 
the city of Indianapolis, and the blind senator from 
Oklahoma, Senator Gore, happened to be in Indianapolis 
at that time. This friend of mine induced Senator Gore 
to come to this meeting and make an address. Now it 
seems that this young man, true to his colors, has been 
something of a reformer in the State of Oklahoma; and 
this is the story that Senator Gore told in reference to 

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him. He said that recently he had dedined three invi- 
tations to attend frog-leg banquets; and when he was 
called upon to assign a reason for his attitude towards 
these functions, he said it was because he had been told 
some years ago by somebody that beer is made out of 
hops (applause and laughter) ; and so you see the 
Haverford spirit, as it has spread throughout our country, 
has taught our men even to avoid the suspicion of evil ! 

I remember Walt Whitman makes the assertion some- 
where — "the most important question that can be asked 
of an institution or a community is : 'Do you turn out 
men down your way ?' " and as I have looked at this 
magnificent body of Haverford men here to-night, I have 
felt impressed with the fact that you could answer that 
question in the affirmative. W^e of the other Quaker col- 
leges will return to our several fields of labor with re- 
newed courage because of the inspiration drawn from 
these anniversary exercises, and we now pledge ourselves 
that we will do what we can to bring it to pass that the 
spirit of the Quaker college shall not perish from the 
earth. 

The Toastmaster : President Sharpless requests me 
to ask those guests of the college who have not found the 
hosts to whom they have been assigned for entertain- 
ment, to please come to him immediately upon our 
adjournment. 

And now, gentlemen of the alumni, there remains but 
one thing more for us to do. In the regular order of 
things, the next grand celebration for Haverford will 
be its centennial anniversary. It will be quite in order 
for every Haverfordian now present to pledge himself 
to attend that centennial anniversary unless prevented by 
circumstances over which he has no control. 

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We certainly have had a great treat this evening, 
not only for our bodies, but we have had a flow of soul 
and a feast of reason ; and we are greatly indebted to the 
representatives of the various colleges who have so 
kindly and so instructively addressed us. This meeting 
of the association stands adjourned. 

(Haverford yell given.) 



Y. M. C. A. MEETING IN ROBERTS HALL. 

October i/, ipo8, ii A. M. 
J. Jarden GuenthER, President Y. M. C. A., Chairman. 

The; Chairman : Let us rise and sing hymn 123, 
"Faith is the Victory," after which we will join in an 
opening prayer. 

The Chairman : Our Father and our God, we thank 
Thee that we may come to worship Thee at this time, 
and thank Thee for the benefits which Thou hast be- 
stowed upon us Thy children. We would ask that our 
thanks may be from the heart, and not with the lips, and 
that by our acts we shall show forth our thanksgiving 
unto Thee the Father of us all. And we pray that as 
this association has been blessed through the past years, 
Thou wilt continue to bless it and to help us as Thy chil- 
dren here to advance Thy kingdom in the hearts of those 
men in this college and all with whom we come in 
contact. 

And, Father, as we render Thee our praise and ask 
Thy guidance and forgiveness, we ask it for the sake and 
in the name of Jesus Christ, who, when He was on earth, 

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taught us to pray: Our Father which art in heaven; 
hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will 
be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our 
daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive 
those who trespass against us. And lead us not into 
temptation, but deliver us from evil ; for Thine is the 
kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen. 

(Triple Quartet, from 1909, then sang hymn, "My 
Jesus, as Thou wilt.") 

The Chairman : No college meeting at Haverford 
could ever be complete without a greeting from its presi- 
dent ; and President Sharpless will give us his greeting 
at this time. 

President Sharpless : The Young Men's Christian 
Association of Haverford College has been an institution 
of continually increasing influence and usefulness for a 
number of years past. Its methods have been so well 
adapted for earnest Christian work ; its theory in the 
conduct of this work has been so catholic that it 
has fused together all the religious elements of the 
college into one organization, and has set them to work. 
That work has been carried on largely around the neigh- 
borhood. It has maintained a missionary in China ; but 
the principal part outside of college has been in the 
conduct of two mission centers at Preston and 
Coopertown, in the immediate neighborhood of the col- 
lege. Its individual members have also associated them- 
selves with a certain amount of religious and benevolent 
work in Philadelphia ; so that, in so far as its usefulness 
has extended outside of college, its functions have been 
rather extended, and I believe beneficent. 

This work outside has to a large extent reacted upon 

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the workers themselves, and has brought into the college 
a spirit of active service for humanity, which has been of 
the highest advantage, in an educative way, to the stu- 
dents themselves. Within the college it has been an agent 
of considerable potency. Not merely have the religious 
meetings been held in that spirit which has usually com- 
mended themselves to the serious minded students among 
us; but the individual work performed by members of 
the association upon those who are not so much inter- 
ested in Christian work has been fruitful of results, so 
that the association, if it ever had any opposition from 
any official source, has long since lived it down, and it 
now receives the entire encouragement and support of all 
factors of college life. 

It is, of course, true that the members of the faculty 
do not enter actively into its arrangements. We do not 
think that it is desirable they should ; we think the initia- 
tive should always rest upon the students, and that the 
work of the association should be responsible to the stu- 
dent body, and to that practically alone. But whatever 
encouragement the association needs from official sources, 
I am sure it is always possible for it to receive ; and in so 
far as the active exertions of the members of the faculty 
are concerned and desired in matters of this kind, they 
are not backward to give it. 

We therefore encourage this work by every means in 
our power. The association has had somewhat of a 
struggling history. I believe it was founded about the 
year 18/8 or 1879, ^^^ that since that iimt there have 
been the ups and downs of its work, as there always is 
in every institution; but of recent years it has embraced 
within its fold in actual membership a very large major- 

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ity of the membership of the college, and has practically, 
as I say, outlived all opposition in the student body as 
well as among friends of the college outside. 

This successful result has been brought about by the 
efforts of the students themselves through several gener- 
ations. The first president was Jesse H. Moore, who 
cannot be with us to-day; he lives in Tennessee, I think. 
The second president was John C. Winston, who is on 
the platform, and who will give to you some little 
account of the origin and early history of the institution. 

John C. Winston : I am very sorry that the man- 
agement was not able to get hold of the first president 
of the Y. M. C. A. of Haverford, because he was not 
only the first president, but we are indebted to him for 
the suggestion of starting the Y. M. C. A. He hap- 
pened to be a member of my class, and I think he 
first spoke of the matter to me; and then we called a 
small conference and talked the matter over. 

The association seems to have been the outgrowth of 
the religious life of the students at that time. It seems 
to have justified its existence by its history since, and I 
think one reason it was successful is, that it was not 
one of those organizations that was simply created for 
the purpose of having an organization or because some- 
body thought there ought to be one, but it was started 
because there seemed to be a need felt of having some 
sort of a central organization around which the general 
religious life and activity among the students might 
center, some organized form about which not only that 
life might center while those of us who were then here 
might remain, but with some hope that it might continue, 
and I think those of us who are here to-day who were 

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active in the organization of that association and have 
heard the sentiments expressed in the address yester- 
day afternoon by Dr. Pepper and have learned of the 
hall that is to be erected near here that will be the home 
of this association as well as of other kindred interests, 
feel that it was more than justified. 

It may be of interest to know the precise language 
that was used to indicate the purpose of the association : 
"To promote growth in grace and Christian fellowship 
among its members, and aggressive Christian work, 
especially by and for students." As President Sharpless 
has said, the association was organized in 1879. To be 
exact, it was the 21st day of October in 1879, ^^'^ there 
were 20 members (about), who participated in the organ- 
ization ; but by the close of the following year it included 
more than two-thirds of the entire student body in its 
membership, and seems to have been finrdy established 
by that time. 

The fall of 1877 marked a distinct period in the history 
of Haverford, not due to the fact that the class of '81 
entered that year, — that may have had something to do 
with it ; but that Barclay Hall was opened that year ; 
and that meant, not simply added facilities and a new 
building on the campus, but a complete revolution in the 
student life: it meant the end of the "good old days" 
when we studied under the eye of the professor in the 
old collecting room. I hadn't that privilege ; but it is dif- 
ficult, I think, to imagine the difference between living 
in separate rooms such as were provided in Barclay Hall, 
having to give an account of yourself at the time of reci- 
tation only, and a few times at collection, and the old 
system. 

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It was a complete revolution in the student life of 
the college. The students at that time came to us from 
seventeen different States. There was quite a large 
number from the Western States, a number from 
the Southern States, and I suppose that the idea 
of the Y. M. C. A. was probably more easily propagated 
among a student body of that class than it would have 
been if the students had been made up of those imme- 
diately around Philadelphia. 

There were two classes of students who did not take 
an interest in the association when it was formed : one 
was one of the very best bodies of the students who were 
not accustomed to think of that sort of work as being 
Friendly, and belonging to a Friends' college. That 
element among the students at Haverford, I am glad to 
say, has come to see that there is nothing inconsistent 
or out of the way in a work of that kind in a Friends' 
college ; and that has been a source of gratification to 
those of us who felt some hesitation in urging the matter 
at that time. • 

Then there is always a class of students at a college 
like this, or any college, that are more or less indifferent 
to religious work ; but, as I say, at the end of the second 
year, two-thirds of the students in the college were 
members of the association. I do not mean to take more 
of your time, but I found in an old "Haverfordian" a 
very good summary which tells better than I can just 
what the condition of the work was at the close of the 
year 1881. It says, at our closing meeting for the year: 
"Reports of the various standing committees showed that 
weekly prayer-meetings had been held throughout the 
year, on Fourth-day evening, with an average attendance 

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of twenty or twenty-five; that each of the four classes 
had held, on Thursday evening, pretty regularly, Bible 
classes at which the International Lesson was studied ; 
that 14 new members have been received during the 
year; that 13 meetings for religious teaching and wor- 
ship have been held in the neighborhood under the aus- 
pices of the association and conducted by members, and 
that the Bible School, which was organized last year by 
two new students, has been kept up within the year with 
the exception of a few weeks during the severe weather, 
one student acting as superintendent and another as 
teacher, while six other students have taught regularly 
in three other schools." 

The First-day School here referred to was the Cooper- 
town First-day School. My room-mate, Levi Edwards, 
afterwards a professor here, has labored in that school 
as superintendent until recently. He and I used to go 
over there every First-day afternoon ; we started it, I 
believe, b^efore the Y. M. C. A. started; but after the 
Y. M. C. A. was organized, that came under the care 
of one of the committees. I acted as superintendent of 
the school ; and he went over with me, and I think one or 
two others joined us ; and so far as I know that school 
has been kept up under the care of Haverford students 
ever since. 

That, I think, indicates about what I know about the 
organization of the Y. M. C. A., and I am very glad to 
know that it continues and prospers. 

The: Chairman : I am sure we are indebted to Mr. 
Winston for giving us an idea of the opening of the 
Y. M. C. A. here about thirty years ago, and I know that 
we shall be interested to have a word of greeting from 

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Mr. Alfred Percival Smith, who is the donor of the new 
student building, which in the course of a few months will 
be the Y. M. C. A's new home; and I take pleasure m 
presenting Mr. Smith. 

Alfri^d Percival Smith : If you will let me 
speak to you very informally in a way which was sug- 
gested by one of the addresses that we heard here the 
other afternoon, I will say a few words. What I would 
speak to you about was outlined in the address that we 
listened to from our fellow-graduate and Haver fordian, 
now a professor at Harvard, Dr. Richards. 

I think that probably every one in this room will agree 
with me that in recent years — quite recently as far as my 
own recollection goes — there seems to be a different spirit 
in many things abroad in the land. We all have heard 
mention jokingly made of the fact that the wives of mem- 
bers of meetings and those of other Christian churches, 
have been accustomed to get money from their husbands 
with which to carry on the missionary work, and of 
themselves doing the greater part, if not all, of it. This 
we believe to be as true among Friends as many of us 
know that it has been in other churches. However, we 
are all part of one church, and while I do not care to 
speak of "other churches" or "other denominations." these 
words seem to creep in ; we are all members of Christ's 
church. Mr. Pepper, in his address yesterday, made no 
distinction whatever. 

This has been emphasized and brought home to us 
by that organization known as The Presbyterian Broth- 
erhood. I attended its first convention with my pastor. 
It met at Indianapolis. There has been one other con- 

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vention since, and it is hoped that it will convene annu- 
ally. This gathering stands for this fact : that the church 
realizes as a whole that her men have not taken their 
proper part, perhaps they have not been willing, perhaps 
not anxious, but, at all events, they have been very ignor- 
ant of many things that they ought to have known, and, 
having knowledge only of a very general sort, have been 
unv\7illing to take the initiative. Therefore, this national 
convention was held with the idea of federating, or unit- 
ing, all existing men's organizations, and, further, of 
creating many more. 

In the United States there are too many organiza- 
tions and too little work. If we concentrated our minds 
more on the work rather than on method of organization, 
we should be far better off. This new Presbyterian 
brotherhood points to an encouraging future. It has 
already heartened many ministers and preachers 
throughout the land. Surely, it has encouraged many 
whose minds were already interested in such projects, 
and has brought into the field many new workers. 

I happen to have been at Haverford almost at the very 
beginning of the Y. M. C. A., but cannot say that I 
know nearly as much of its history as President Sharpless 
has related. It would not be expected, since I have not 
been out here except on other occasions, and I am frank 
to say that my own part in the organization when here 
was not such a part as I would like to take were I here 
to-day. The slight experience I have had has been in an 
outside way, and this, or rather, the knowledge of the 
different kinds of people that are met with, particularly in 
a large city church composed of those who come from 
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transitory or floating population — this it was that turned 
my mind in the direction of the outhne of the address we 
lately heard from our fellow liaverfordian, Dr. Rich- 
ards. Now, you may not recall it, but Dr. Richards 
talked to us about chemistry and its relation to medicine 
— how it can help medicine ; and he spoke of three things 
in connection with it. He said first we want to find out 
what things are made of; then we want to find out how 
to put them together again, and, finally, we want to know 
something concerning energy. 

There seems to be a close analogy between this ap- 
plication of chemistry to medicine and the conditions 
actually affecting our Christian life. In the first place 
(St. Paul speaks of it in the New Testament), it is true 
that we are all members one of another. The Apostle 
speaks of the Christian members of any particular church, 
or meeting, or congregation, as being related to each 
other very much as are the fingers of one's hand, or the 
different parts of the body. Such being the case, it is 
clearly understood that there can be no conflict between 
them, because each and every part has a distinct func- 
tion. It would seem that the thing we ought to try to 
know is, exactly what is each individual's function ; that 
is, what is the real thing that each and every one of us 
can do. A knowledge of this would have a great deal 
to do with the influence we exert. Many of us are 
inclined to think that we have no influence ; but, were a 
minister speaking to you instead of your fellow alumnus, 
he would make much of this opportunity to seek to 
impress you with the fact that every person connected 
with the college, whether of the faculty or the student 
body, would find that there is something that he alone 

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can do in the Y. M. C. A., and the point is that no one 
else can do it quite as well. We are very apt to neglect 
this sort of thing, and think that we can do little or 
nothing. Then, there is another application : we want 
to ascertain what we can do and to find out what our 
brother Christian can do. We want to know the good 
rather than the bad in' others — the good qualities, and 
how to call such into action. 

The second thing that our friend, Dr. Richards, said 
was about putting things together. We first find oyt 
what a substance is made of; then we want to know its 
construction. In respect to the conduct of the Y. M. C. A. 
and the particular part therein of the faculty, officers 
and students, the situation reminds me of a Philadelphia 
pastor of whom I have heard a member of our Junior 
Bar speak. Although this man apparently takes no part 
in, nor seeks to direct, the activities of his church, each 
separate society being allowed to manage its own busi- 
ness, whether it be the Ladies' Aid, the Men's Club, or 
the Sunday School, nevertheless, this lawyer made this 
significant remark, that he did not think there was any- 
thing that ever happened in that church that was not 
thoroughly understood by this pastor, and in which he did 
not have a part, but it was such a quiet one that the peo- 
ple did not seem to know it. If in our Christian work, 
we, then, can do this sort of thing, there is no reason why 
the faculty, the association officers and certain influential 
students should not each do his part ; but you do not want 
the association itself to have the idea that these people 
are going to do it all, any more that you want to have the 
church have the idea that the minister can do all the visit- 
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with him, by themselves, or with each other ; the theory 
being that there should be co-operation along this as well 
as along all other lines. 

Suppose, then, we could find out what it is that each 
one can best and ought to do, and, further, ascertain how 
we can relate these things together. Then we must have 
something else before we can put them all to w^ork; and 
I think that the word "energy" that we heard used so 
often in Dr. Richards' address, typifies this spirit of 
Christ that we ought to have in us. I think I never saw 
that spirit better illustrated than in Professor Pepper's 
address, who spoke representing the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and it surprised me ; for, although I have heard 
him talk on legal subjects, and have heard him speak 
very well when there was some delicate matter to be 
handled at a convention of lawyers, and we know he has 
marked ability, yet I did not realize that he had quite as 
much in his heart as we heard here yesterday, and I am 
sure we were all glad to hear it and to know that he felt 
so, and would be very happy to know that there were 
many more of the same sort of men. 

The singular statement is sometimes made that when 
a man has several boys he will put the bright ones in 
this or that profession or business, and the dull fellow 
is allowed to study for the ministry. We do not want 
that kind of people either in the Friend's ministry or that 
of any other denomination, and we need a very diflferent 
class to send abroad to the mission field. I think we 
have sent a good man from Haverford abroad already, 
and many of you know much more about him than I 
do; but we want the very best stock that we can get, 
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missions are located, whom we are accustomed to speak of 
as heathen, and think of as knowing Httle or nothing, 
in reality sometimes have the keenest of minds, and 
would compare favorably, and perhaps to our disadvan- 
tage, were they here in our midst and working side by 
side with us. Thus, I am reminded here of something 
I have read quite recently, and I think that it sounds a 
good note to leave with you in this connection. 

A gentleman whose portrait was given in the last num- 
ber of the Literary Digest as that of the man who was 
nearest to the young Chinese Emperor, but who has 
been pushed aside for a time while the Empress Dowager 
should live and retain the ruling hand, and who, it is 
thought, will come back into power at her death — this 
man was asked by a gentleman interviewing him re- 
cently, regarding some of the strenuous things that were 
in Christ's character, and he was asked to which one of 
them he would give the most prominence? His instant 
reply was Christ's courageousness and manliness; He 
was not affected by any amount of discouragement; and 
we all know with how much of this He had to contend; 
how discouraging His circumstances were, and how brave 
He was. This fact had made a wonderful impression on 
this man's mind, and there were many other things of 
which he spoke, and he did not seem at all averse to 
Christianity. It was a delightful thing to think and know 
that some day, sooner or later, this man may, perhaps, 
come back into power and wield a tremendous influence 
among these teeming millions of people, who are not of 
the class who run our laundries, and I firmly believe, for 
one, are far superior to the Japanese race, who have so 
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Why cannot we have that sort of spirit in us, that same 
manliness, that same courageousness that Christ had that 
is not discouraged by any obstacle, and is willing to work 
patiently and tactfully? Let us remember that, while 
Christ did withdraw Himself for prayer and meditation, 
yet His life was in no sense an isolated one, that He 
did not seek only on Sunday or in the synagogue to speak 
on religious matters, but that He used every occasion on 
every day of the week; that while He spoke tactfully, 
yet He could also speak very sternly. He could rebuke 
sin and all things that should be rebuked, and had no 
hesitancy about it at all ; yet we, not having this same 
knowledge, and often lacking in the tact, have to be very 
careful how we do things, because we do not wish to 
oflfend or hurt, but only to help others. 

Can we go forward in this same spirit? I know it 
is what we need in our church work where we meet 
many more classes than here in the college; people are 
different, not homogeneous ; but here it is not so hard, 
perhaps, to find what this or that one is good for. How- 
ever, this same lack of spirit, or courage, might be found 
quite as strongly in the college as in the church I believe ; 
and we ought not to tolerate that sort of thing, but show 
by our admiration and esteem and the way in which we 
greet our fellows (who are possessed of this Christlike 
courage) that that is the thing we supremely admire, 
and so encourage it in the other, and perhaps weaker, 
brethren. 

The: Chairman : I will ask the men in the gallery to 
sing for us again at this time. 

(Quartet sings "Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me.") 

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The Chairman : President Sharpless, in his word of 
greeting, covered the work which onr Y. M. C. A. is 
trying to do here, and I hardly think it is necessary for 
me to say more than one or two words here in reference 
to our work ; but for the benefit of those of our friends 
here who do not know, perhaps, the scope of our endeav- 
ors, I want very briefly to tell you of the work which 
we are trying to do here with the students. In the first 
place, on Monday evenings we gather the men, and a 
great many of them, far more than you would suppose, 
into Bible class study. The work this year especially 
has been very encouraging in that respect. About the 
middle of November we shall start on Thursday evenings 
a class for the study of missions, and this year we shall 
probably have two or three classes, one following the 
other, taking u]) perhaps as our first subject Islam, and 
then one or two subjects of domestic interest: the immi- 
gration, or some problem of the city. 

President Sharpless spoke of the work at Coopertown 
and of the work at Preston. I would say one word with 
regard to the work at Preston — that last year a gymna- 
sium was built there ; four nights of the week we gathered 
the boys in off the streets, and the men from the 
college led them in the gymnastic work ; and through 
the kindness of one of our friends here in the neighbor- 
hood, one of the girls from Bryn Mawr, we soon expect 
to start a class for girls in gymnasium work. 

We are represented in the foreign field by Robert L. 
Simkin, '03, whom we partially support. He is in the 
Friends' Mission in West China. I wrote him some time 
ago for some photos of his work, but he replied that so 
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been unable to take any pictures. 1 hope wc shall have 
some soon. 

Jieside our work here and our supijorl of Sinikiu, the 
men are goin<;' down into the city into various settle- 
ment houses, and helping out there. One word sums up 
the work here at Haver ford — Co-operation. We all 
get into this work ; we all do work. There is no feeling 
that this man or that man is leader, rather we are all 
members of the association ; and as we go forward this 
year, it is our purpose to enroll practically every man of 
the college in the association, and not only to em'oll 
him, but give him something to do. just the other day 
I posted up a little notice of several branches of work 
that needed men, and within a few hours several of those 
reijuests had beeen filled ; and we now have men who 
are willing to work out here, and go ink) the city work 
also. So we are not only enrolling men as members of 
the college association, but we are going oulside into 
neighborhood work and carrying the religion of Jesus 
Christ where it will coimt for most ; and in that way wc 
ourselves arc benefited. 

Air. Walter Wood, who is secretary of the Central 
Branch of the riiiladelphia Y. M. C. A., who has just 
come on from Chicago to lake U]) that work, is with us; 
and it is with great pleasure, indeed, (hat I introduce to 
a Havcrford audience a man who assumes such a re- 
sponsible position in the Y. M. C. A. work in i'hiladel- 
phia. He will tell us of the scope of the great inter- 
national Y. M. C. A. movement. 

WvM.TKR M. Wood: It is the business of the Young 
Men's Christian Association to translate Christian ideals 
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ity. That is what the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion of Haverford College stands for; and in standing 
for that, it stands not alone ; it is significant that the 
association here is but a part of a world-wide move- 
ment, for the greatest fraternity of students in the world 
is the Young Men's Christian Association. Hardly a 
college in this country is without one of these associations. 
You will find centered in the life of the student body, 
potent in the community where the college is located, 
a body of Christian men doing work. It is not possible 
in these days for Christian work to be done for students 
and fill the bill. It has become recognized that it is 
necessar}' that Christian work shall be done by students; 
and that is the reason why the keynote just sounded by 
your president, that of co-operation, is emphasized. 

President Sharpless spoke wisely when he said it is the 
duty of the students to be the leaders in this Christian 
movement. The spirit of the Young Men's Christian 
Association demands not that religion shall be delivered 
to young men, but that young men shall espouse the 
cause of religion, shall become Christian factors in the 
communities where they live, active in the student bod- 
ies with w^hich they are identified, and shall express by 
their lives, as well as by their words, the principles 
taught by Jesus Christ. 

John IMott, the leader of student association work, 
not alone in this country, but in the world, as secretary of 
the ^Vo^ld's Christian Student Federation, used to make 
this remark with reference to the college associations : 
"Gentlemen. I would have you understand that this is an 
intercollegiate movement, and not an intercollegiate 
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the work of Christian students for their own fellows has 
extended throughout this country and to all corners of the 
world, and quite beyond the range of college circles into 
the cities, where for different classes of men, and in 
more recent years for boys as well there has been built 
up an excellent movement and there has been gathered 
together a working force of men who gladly look after 
the life development of their fellows. 

Great association buildings, and organized Christian 
effort in behalf of railroad men are found at all the promi- 
nent railroad centers of the United States, Young Men's 
Christian Association buildings, being in many localities, 
the main assembling place of railroad men in off duty 
hours. Hardly a transport sails from any of our great 
naval centers that does not carry with it representatives 
of the Young Men's Christian Association. There are 
Christian associations on board the battleships and at the 
various naval and army centers and ports of the country 
there are buildings for the use of the Young Men's 
Christian Association. 

There are some unique purposes which the Young 
Men's Christian Association seeks to fulfill. I can refer 
to them but very briefly. It is not for the purpose of 
duplicating the work of the churches that we find the 
association organized in the college or in the city or at the 
railroad center or at the army post ; it is not as a protest 
against the church or its ineffectiveness, as some seem to 
think. The unique purposes of the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association, briefly stated, are to be found in two 
things, which are presented in Luke II, 52, the complete 
statement of the growth of Jesus Christ from boyhood 
to manhood. It says there that Jesus increased in wisdom 

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(intellectually), in stature (physically), in favor with 
God (spiritually) and zvith man (socially). 

Two things stand out in that marvelous description of 
a perfect growth from boyhood to manhood : first, the 
idea of continuous growth ; and, second, the idea of bal- 
ance or poise in the life. It does not say that He in- 
creased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God, 
and paid no attention to the interests of His fellow-men ; 
it does not say that He increased in wisdom and stature 
and was a good fellow among His associates, and paid no 
attention to His obligations to His Heavenly Father; it 
does not say that He increased in wisdom and in favor 
with God and men and allowed Himself to be run down 
and inefiicient physically ; but it says that He increased in 
all these phases of his life ; and the Young Men's Chris- 
tian Association, if it stands for anything, stands for that 
unique balancing of the life typified in the life of Christ. 

The school stands essentially for education ; the home 
stands essentially for fellowship; the civic life stands 
essentially for co-operation ; one's business stands essen- 
tially for self-investment; one's recreation stands essen- 
tially for self-recovery; the church stands essentially for 
inspiration, while the Young Men's Christian Association 
stands essentially as a supplement to these other agencies 
which I have mentioned, endeavoring to keep a man well 
poised — balanced in his life. 

Any one knows that the influences of modern life tend 
to throw a man off his balance. He tends to give major 
attention now to this, now to that, tending to become 
more or less of a freak in his interests and in his activities. 
The tendency is for a n'an to fail to keep that substantial 
poise, that even balanced view of things, that well-bal- 

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anced relation to the various interests of life that would 
make him a stable man ; and the Young Men's Christian 
Association stands, first, for the development of that 
balance in the life and its maintenance against all the 
counter influences that bear upon a man. There is no 
other institution that stands in the comniunity — whether 
it be a student or a city or a railroad community — no 
other institution that stands with the idea paramcnnit 
that it shall maintain balance in the lives of men. 

The other idea of "increase" is simply the a])i)cal for 
Christian culture, which might be defined in terms of sur- 
plusage. It does not say that Jesus increased simply 
just enough to satisfy His own purposes and then stopped. 
It says that He increased without stating limits, and the 
characteristic of Christ's own life was this, that Pie in- 
creased beyond the measure of His own needs ; His physi- 
cal and intellectual and spiritual and social power was 
greater than He needed to answer His own selfish pur- 
poses. There was consequently in His life a surplusage 
physically — enough for Himself, and then some more; 
intellectually — enough for His own purposes, and then 
some more; spiritually — enough for Himself and then 
a surplus ; and socially — He was as good to people as He 
needed to be, and then much kinder still ; and in that 
sur])lusage, in that overplus, which inevitably meant an 
overflow from His life, we find that abundant life that so 
enriches the world to-day. 

The Young Men's Christian Association bids a man 
not alone to get steady, to keep his balance, to acquire 
and to maintain a poise of life ; but it bids him to become 
bigger than he needs to be to satisfy his private interests ; 
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margin for others, in the truest sense a Christian man. 
The work here in college has as its objective the estab- 
lishment of a well-balanced interest in all phases of a 
man's life — not the intellectual alone, but the religious 
and the social and the physical as well, and the develop- 
ment of an intent, yes, more than that, the fixing of a 
purpose to make one's life so large that it must overflow 
in deeds of service to those about. 

So you will find in the college community, working out 
from the association, and in the city and railroad, and the 
army and navy centers, these ideas now endowed, in this 
country alone, with about $50,000,000 worth of property 
in the way of equipment ; and with the support of a 
third of a million men as members in Young Men's 
Christian Associations. The association holds a high 
place as a unique agency for maintaining balance and 
poise in the life, and for promoting growth into the 
realm of margin or surplus, where the life becomes one, 
not of self-centered interest, but a life of service after the 
pattern of Jesus Christ. 

I congratulate you on your identification with a move- 
ment so unique and so potent, and on your standing not 
alone, but in a fraternity world-wide in its scope, and en- 
joying world-wide recognition of its values. 

The) Chairman : Immediately after this meeting the 
cabinet will tender to all former presidents a luncheon in 
No. 3, Lloyd Hall. It was quite impossible for us to 
send invitations to all the men who have acted as presi- 
dent of the association, as we have very few back rec- 
ords, so there are perhaps ten men who did not re- 
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hope they will pardon an apparent oversight and join us 
immediately after this meeting in No. 3, Lloyd Hall. 

There is no more fitting hymn that we should sing at 
any closing than our national anthem ; and I will ask 
that we all stand and sing the first and last stanzas of 
"America," after which Mr. Wood will lead us in a brief 
closing prayer. 

(Hymn "America" then sung.) 

Mr. Wood : Our Heavenly Father, we thank Thee 
that we may join in fellowship as we serve Thee. We 
thank Thee that Thou hast promised us the guidance of 
Thy spirit when we seek to serve Thee ; and wilt Thou 
give us the strength which Thou also hast promised. 
We trust in Thy leadership; we joy in Thy leadership; 
and we will follow whithersoever Thou dost call us. 
Wilt Thou grant 'J'hy blessing upon the organized Chris- 
tian work at this ])lace, and upon every one who plays a 
part in the program of the advancement of the kingdom 
of God here. We ask it for Jesus' sake. Amen. 



HISTORICAL MEETING IN ROBERTS HALL. 

Tenth Month //, ipo8, 4.30 P. M. 

Conditions and Foundation Ideas Leading to the 
Foundation of Haverford College. 

By Bdzuard Bettle, Jr. 

In the consideration of the subject allotted to me, it 
must be borne in mind that it largely concerns the 

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Religious Society of Friends, and it is well to do this 
since otherwise some present might think that what may 
be said is too sectarian in character. But surely, if any- 
where, at a gathering of college people, and especially in 
a gathering of Haverfordians and their friends, no apol- 
ogy is needed for the frank open treatment of any histor- 
ical theme. And indeed Haverfordians, whether Friends 
or not, have no reason to shrink from the closest scrutiny 
of the motives and acts of the founders of our college. 

If the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of 
Haverford had been celebrated, it would have occurred 
during my Sophomore year, and, as we are now com- 
memorating the seventy-fifth anniversary of the college, 
it would seem as if your speaker was old enough to treat 
his theme with some knowledge of it. But I assure you 
that he does not feel so mature nor so well informed as 
might thus appear. 

Besides the German's essay on the camel, a great deal 
of what is written, including a good deal of history, has 
had its source in the inner consciousness of the writer, 
so if, in what follows, statements or opinions are set forth 
with which other persons may not agree, the speaker is 
not careful to answer in this matter further than to state 
that what is said is believed by him to be true. 

It is a well-known fact, at least among Friends, that 
the Society has always been deeply interested, "con- 
cerned," is our Friendly way of putting it, in the educa- 
tion of its youth. That great and wise man, its accredited 
founder, George Fox, advised in 1667, the establishment 
of a school for boys and one for girls, where the pupils, 
in his well-known phrase, should be "Instructed in all 
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^nough to include "the humanities" of our forefathers 
and the scientific and technical instruction so popular in 
recent years. 

Some of the colleagues and early followers of George 
Fox were men of education and scholarship. Robert 
Barclay, the Apologist, was such an one, and wrote in 
defense of classical training in schools, "for such youth 
as are inclinable thereto." Thomas Ell wood, in a note- 
worthy passage in his journal, states that not until he 
came among the Quakers was he "rightly sensible" of his 
loss of the learning he had acquired in youth, which he 
then made diligent efforts to recover, and he denounces 
as false the charge that the Quakers "despised and 
decried all human learning because they denied it to be 
essentially necessary to a gospel ministry." William 
Penn was a public Grammar School boy, an Oxford 
student for two years, and his charters to the School in 
Philadelphia are, it has been said, broad enough for a 
University. 

But we must not get too far afield. These examples 
will show that among Friends in the early days what we 
call higher education was valued, advocated, and to some 
extent provided for. It is, also, true that from those 
times to this there have always been Friends who have 
held similar views and have been concerned to support 
them. 

It is equally true that, always, many in the Society 
have held much more restricted views as to the scope 
of education proper for the youth belonging to it. In 
England, Friends came largely from the plain people, 
the yeomanry and the small tradesmen, and, naturally, 
a useful, practical education was that which many, prob- 

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ably most, of them approved and considered sufficient. 
And this would be the education approved by a very con- 
siderable portion of the Society in this country, both in 
the early days and later years. 

How then shall we account for the interest in this 
subject of higher, or collegiate, education which arose 
among Friends in our Eastern States, about the year 
1830, or at least then first began to make itself publicly 
known. And here it should be said that this interest, 
this inquiry for higher education, was, fundamentally, 
for classical learning, for "the humanities," to use the 
old phrase. Just why this should be so, it may be diffi- 
cult for some to understand, and it is not in the province 
of this paper to explain. But that "the nurture in good 
learning" meant, everywhere, a classical education, then 
and for many years afterwards, admits of no dispute. 
The love for science and scientific studies came later. 
The language and the literature of Rome and of Greece 
were the especial objects of attention. Everywhere the 
older schools or academies, colleges and universities, 
were established to promote this learning, and Haverford 
is undoubtedly entitled to a place among them. 

First, what of the conditions leading to the establish- 
ment of Haverford? 

In Philadelphia the position of the Society in 1830, 
when the movement for Haverford began, was appar- 
ently one of strength and power. The separation had 
removed those who were out of harmony, and other con- 
troversial questions had not yet arisen. The ministers' 
galleries were filled with ministers and elders, the meet- 
ings for worship were largely attended, the benches show- 
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was rigorously and promptly carried out. It must be 
borne in mind, however, that even in those days there 
was a considerable number upon whom the discipline 
rested lightly. It was not difficult, by avoiding certain 
open violations of it, to live a careless life devoted to 
business or to pleasure, and it was for this section of the 
Society that wise, far-seeing men were concerned. It 
was men with this concern who, in Philadelphia, in New 
York, and in Baltimore, originated the plan of Haver- 
ford School. These men felt that something must be 
done to stay the growth of a gross materialism in the 
Society, and, also, to preserve to their Church its gen- 
erous youth who wanted a liberal education and would 
get this outside its borders if they could not do so within 
its limits. In fact, it was officially stated by the mana- 
gers, in 1830, that the number of Friends' children who 
were being educated in academies and colleges outside 
the Society was believed to be greater than could be 
accommodated in the new school. 

It is also undoubtedly true that these men loved 
learning for its own sake, and were determined that the 
youth of their beloved Society "who were inclinable 
thereto," to use Barclay's words, should have the oppor- 
tunity of acquiring it. James Russell Lowell had not 
then formulated his definition of one object of education : 
"to enable a man to be good company for himself," but 
we may easily believe that this result of education was 
one which would also appeal to them. 

To return to my subject : It has been the thought of 
some to connect the establishment of Haverford with 
the theological divergences which culminated, in 1827, in 
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ford History mentions this idea, and states that this view 
is not supported by documentary evidence. 

A familiar text suggests, I think, one solution of the 
problem : "For the divisions of Reuben there were great 
searchings of heart." It might well be that those distress- 
ful times caused great searchings of heart, and that in 
pondering on the state of Society there came to pious 
minds the thought of the material lives which many of its 
members had lived, and which some were still living, 
engrossed in the farm or in the merchandise, and this 
without reference to differences in religious opinions. 

It may be helpful to hear what Coleridge, poet and 
philosopher, one of the great intellects of all time, has 
to say of the Society of Friends at about this period. 
He speaks of the Society in England, but his words would 
have been, from his point of view, at least equally applic- 
able to the Society in this country. I say from his point 
of view, and do not mean to do more than point out 
his remarks for our consideration. Undoubtedly, there 
have always been in all churches those who are absorbed 
in business or pleasure, to the neglect of the spiritual life. 
His is the old plea for the things of the mind and of the 
spirit as opposed to the material things of this world and 
the things which perish in the using. 

Coleridge says : "Of all denominations of Christians, 
there is not one in existence or on record whose whole 
scheme of faith and worship was so expressly framed 
for the one purpose of spiritualizing the mind and oft| 
abstracting it from the vanities of the world, as the£. 
Society of Friends ; not one, in which the members are 
connected, and their professed principles enforced, by so 
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He goes on to say : "In the zeal of their founders and 
first proselytes for perfect spirituality they excluded from 
their system all ministers specially trained and educated 
for the ministry, with all professional theologians, and 
they omitted to provide for the raising up among them- 
selves any other established class of learned men, as 
teachers and schoolmasters for instance, in their stead." 
After paying eloquent tribute to their manners and 
morals and to their exemplary philanthropic efforts, he 
claims that all these things did not "exert any efficient 
force of control over the commercial spirit," and he 
points out what he believes to have been the resulting 
worldliness. 

As to one of the remedies he suggests — the providing 
of trained and educated ministers — Friends cannot agree 
with him, but in what he sp.ys about raising up "a class of 
learned men, such as teachers and schoolmasters" there 
can be no proper dissent. Indeed, one of the objects 
sought in the establishment of Haverford was the pro- 
viding well-qualified schoolmasters and teachers for 
Friends' schools. 

In an address of the managers, dated Fifth month 13, 
1833, written with great care and adopted after careful 
examination and published for the purpose of setting 
forth the objects, the scope, and the methods of Haver- 
ford School, is the follov/ing: "But if it be thus im- 
Dortant to make youth acquainted with those parts of the 
testimonies of the Society which distinguish it as a 
eparate people, it must be admitted to be equally so to 
instruct them in the common belief of the Christian world. 
The external evidences of the truth of revealed religion 
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in science. If true, they must be able to withstand, as 
they have ever done, the severest scrutiny." 

This is very interesting- and significant language and 
points out a proper place in Friends' schools and colleges 
for study and education in matters relating to religion, 
a thing of such vital interest that it would be a misfor- 
tune, if the fear of a word possible to be misunderstood 
should stand in the way of such study and instruction. 
Theology is a word which Friends take little occasion to 
use, but, in common with other Christian believers, very 
much that is to be comprehended in that term is very 
near to their hearts. In this broad sense, theology has 
occupied and still occupies a large place in the thoughts 
and hearts of its concerned members. These have always 
been diligent readers of the religious books of the Society, 
and, in the earlier days, perhaps no sect in the Christian 
Church made, relatively, larger contributions, in print and 
in speech, to this subject. Our founders, we have seen, 
felt its importance, and if their successors carry on the 
study in somewhat different form, and dwell, also, on 
other parts of the same theme, in which instruction is 
believed to be required by the needs of their own times, 
who shall say that they are departing from the founda- 
tion ideas of those earlier men. Rather are thev building 
on the original foundation. 

Using, therefore, the term as Coleridge uses it, that is, 
without any reference whatever to, or recognition of, any 
priestly or ministerial caste, one can see that providing for 
the education of what he styles "professional theolo- 
gians," meaning by these words men who shall devote 
their time, their minds, their hearts, to the most momen- 
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Creator, including the whole range of ecclesiastical his- 
tory, might well be within the scope of the Haverford 
of to-day and of the future. 

The college, then, is fortunate in now having generous 
provision for such instruction. The object of a liberally 
endowed fund for this purpose, a "Fund for Bible Study 
and Religious Teaching," is thus set forth : "The purpose 
of the Fund is to make liberal provision for the regular 
study of the Bible and Bible history and literature, and, 
as way opens, for religious teaching in unison with the 
Apostles' Creed and the principles of apostolic Christianity 
as taught by Robert Barclay, William Penn and the 
early elders of the Religious Society of Friends." 

And now, what did our founders purpose to do in es- 
tablishing Haverford School. 

In the introduction to the "Outlines of a Plan" put 
forth under date, Philadelphia, Sixth month 28, 1830, 
is the following statement : "It is therefore proposed that 
an institution be established in which the children of 
Friends shall receive a liberal education in ancient and 
modern literature and the mathematical and natural sci- 
ences, under the care of competent instructors of our 
own Society, so as not to endanger their religious prin- 
ciples or alienate them from their early attachments." 

Article VIII of the Plan is as follows: "The full 
course of instruction in the school shall include English 
literature, mathematics, natural, intellectual and moral 
philosophy, the Greek and Latin languages, ancient liter- 
ature and natural history. Opportunity also to be af- 
forded for instruction in the French, German, Spanish 
and other modern languages." 

In the introductory paragraph, just quoted, may be 

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found the foundation idea of Haverford School and 
of Haverford College, and in Article VIII is set forth 
the scheme of education proposed, which is large enough 
to tax the resources of the Haverford of any period. 

In the address of the managers already referred to 
will be found an admirable presentment of the objects in 
view. Its summary of the advantages, in themselves 
and relatively, of the study of mathematics, of natural 
science, of languages — our own and those of Greece and 
Rome — and of the philosophy of the mind in all its 
branches, is remarkably able. The whole paper will 
amply repay the reader. 

The address mentions the purpose of the institution as 
being "not so much to make brilliant scholars of our 
pupils as to turn out well-instructed, serious, reflecting, 
and useful men," and it states that the acquisition of 
knowledge, however valuable for its own sake, is chiefly 
to be prized as the means for the cultivation of the 
mental powers and the formation of character. 

In another place, it uses this language, which is as true 
and as applicable now as when it was written, language 
which will always be true and pertinent : "The alternative 
is not in this age and in this country between a safe 
ignorance and a hazardous knowledge. It is between a 
safe knowledge and a hazardous ignorance." And it con- 
cludes : "By the aid of a mild but firm discipline, of 
competent teachers, and thorough instruction in every 
branch of study that is to be pursued, and by sedulous 
care and oversight on the part of its officers and mana- 
gers, we hope that our institution may prove the means, 
under the divine blessing, of imparting to the youth edu- 
cated in it, for generations to come, that 'good instruc- 

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tion', which, in the language of the motto of William 
Penn 'is better than riches.' " 

The foundation idea, the compelling motive, which 
actuated the leaders in the movement which led to the 
establishment of Haverford School and culminated in 
Haverford College, was, therefore, a liberal education, 
such an education, in a scholastic sense, as the youth 
of other churches could obtain in the colleges of the 
country. And, inseparably connected with this intention, 
there was the settled purpose that this education should 
be given under the safeguards of the doctrines and testi- 
monies of Friends, which all concerned in the enterprise 
held to be essential to the well being of the youth of the 
Society. These leaders were sincere, earnest Friends, 
brought up in the strictest adherence to Friends' prin- 
ciples and practices, believers from settled conviction in 
all the doctrines of the Society, and faithful in the sup- 
port of all its testimonies. It was, therefore, with no 
reservations or insincerity that they provided, in the 
rules for the government of the new school, that its 
students should all be Friends, or children of Friends, 
and prescribed for them adherence to the customs of the 
Society down to the minutest details of dress, speech and 
manner of living. 

These regulations were enforced for more than a 
quarter of a century, and the rigidity of the rules and the 
strictness of living relaxed, changed with that gradual, 
unpremeditated, unformulated modification which has 
ever been the course of human affairs, even before the 
Emperor of Rome, more than ten centuries ago, described 
it in these words : "Omnia mutantur nos et mutamur in 
illis," (all things change and we change in the course of 

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them). That is a simple statement of an undeniable 
fact. 

This is the Christian view, which the great poet of our 
own time, with reverent and prophetic insight, has given 
of this ceaseless evolution : 

"The old order changeth, yielding place to new, 
And God fulfils himself in many ways, 
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world." 

And further, in this flux and flow, we should always 
remember the Apostle's words : "Happy is he that con- 
demneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth." 

In this world, a purpose may be fulfilled, although 
methods are changed to meet changed times. No one 
here will question that it was a guarded, religious educa- 
tion for which Haverford was established, and we 
should be as willing to admit that some methods to this 
end were followed in other days which are not adapted 
to these times. There is nothing iconoclastic in this. 
The fathers had the same Guide Who is ready to lead 
us, and they ever counselled their descendants to follow 
this Leader. 

Remembering this, I would ask whether it is not true 
that Haverford, now as heretofore, gives to the children 
of Friends under her care a liberal education "so as not 
to endanger their religious principles or alienate them 
from their early attachments," even although some of 
their instructors and many of their comrades are not of 
their own Church connection. Let each of us answer 
this question as he may know the facts, and, allowing 
for natural differences of opinion, the consensus of com- 
petent judges must be, I truly think, that we need not 
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founders of Haverford School, has not been carried out, 
is not now being carried out, in this college, in good 
degree. 

And, let us earnestly pray, may it ever be carried out. 

We have been dealing with the past. It is our good 
fortune that other and experienced speakers will treat of 
the present and the future. They, however, I am sure, 
will not welcome to the college more warmly than the 
present speaker all who believe in what Haverford stands 
for — a well-balanced, well-regulated, thorough education, 
under wholesome conditions for mind and body, and 
under the safeguards of genuine, vitalizing, religious in- 
fluences. 

Present Demands Which Justify the Existence of 

Haverford College. 

Rufiis M. Jones. 

I have just been reading the words of a great English 
essayist. He says : "Forty years ago, when I was an 
undergraduate at Oxford, voices were in the air there 
which haunt my memory still. Happy the man who in 
the susceptible season of youth hears such voices ! They 
are a possession to him forever!" There are many of 
us here to-day, I hope, who heard these "haunting voices" 
in the days of our youth at Haverford. There are few 
happinesses higher than the happiness which comes from 
shining memories. 

This essayist mournfully adds : "But no such voices 
as those which we heard in our youth at Oxford are 
sounding there now." This is perhaps a natural illusion 
which comes with age. There are no fish in the streams 
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there are none like the ones that used to bite ! There are 
surely no maidens now like those heavenly creatures 
which set our hearts throbbing years ago ! There are no 
teachers, no inspiring voices, no clarion calls like those we 
heard when our lives were forming. It is by such illu- 
sions of memory that the happy Edens, the vales of 
Tempe and the peaceful paradises are built in the past, 
and it is thus that golden ages are carried backwards into 
earlier times as a relief from the hard present. 

The fact is that we are living now in the best age and 
period since the morning stars sang together. "We are 
heirs of all the ages in the foremost files of time." The 
prophetic voices which summon young men to-day are 
probably as clear as ever they were, and the moral tasks 
which our youth are called to face are as inspiring as 
ever they were. And without any violence to the historic 
spirit, and without playing false to revered memories, I 
may add that Haverford, which has been a mother of 
men in the past, is fulfilling as noble a mission in our 
modern world as in any days of its past history. 

An institution, like an individual form of life, can 
expect to survive and maintain its place in the world 
only as it corresponds with its environment, and that 
environment is a very shifting affair. The social and in- 
tellectual environment of 1908 is vastly different from 
that of 1833, when this institution, now so dear to us, 
was bom. The methods of the founders are in many 
respects outgrown, but the spirit which created the col- 
lege is still quick and powerful in it ; prophetic of a great 
mission in the years to come. 

There is a story of a colored brother who was put at 
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his sleep. The dusky helmsman was shown a star to 
steer by. When the pilot returned the ship was far off 
its course, and the unruffled Palinurus said: "Say, boss, 
I done sailed by that star; gib me another." Haverford 
has changed pilots, but it has not sailed past its old star, — 
which was and is the pole-star of truth, that Divine Light 
which does not rise nor set, and as Brunetto Latini said 
to Dante, we may say of our college : "If thou follow thy 
star, thou canst not fail of a glorious destiny." 

But I must grow more concrete and point out in more 
detail what Haverford's mission is in this generation, 
and what special tasks confront it, if, in its future career, 
it is to obey "the voice obeyed at prime." I shall mention 
four tasks which stand clearly in the foreground of our 
commission and which cannot be dodged without confes- 
sion of failure. 

I. The time has come to insist that a college shall 
be, both in name and in fact, an institution of learning 
and not an asylum for gentlemanly loafers. Artemus 
Ward used to say that a comic paper ought to have an 
occasional joke in it, and it seems clear that an educational 
institution ought to educate. I believe that serious per- 
sons are now ready for a college which takes its intel- 
lectual mission very seriously. There is a fine sarcasm in 
the words of "Lothair" : "What I admire in the modern 
students' life is that they live in the open air; they excel 
in athletic sports ; they can speak only one language, and 
they never read. This is not a complete education, but 
it is the highest education since the Greek !" It may be 
well to have institutions where such splendid loafing is 
cultivated, but I should like to see about nine miles from 
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to every man who knocked at her gates : "You cannot 
come in nor stay in after you do come unless you are 
ready for strenuous mental tasks, for serious intellectual 
discipline, for the cultivation of largeness of view, and 
for the acquisition of skill and discernment. All hope of 
loafing abandon ye who enter here." 

2. The college which is to fulfill its true mission in 
modern society must find a genuine solution of the ath- 
letic problem. We are confronted by an overgrown 
athleticism which has swept our American institutions of 
learning almost like an hysterical contagion. It has 
brought into many of our colleges and universities a class 
of men who do not belong there, until these institutions 
have sometimes painfully resembled the famous cave of 
Adullam. It has, too, so disproportionately emphasized 
the body-side of life and the importance of gate receipts 
that many institutions have undergone a pagan baptism 
of materialism and have shared with society at large the 
prevailing taint of commercialism. 

The sober sense of the age now demands a college in 
which sport shall be the normal, healthy activity of an all- 
round man, and kept in due balance with the claims of 
mental and spiritual culture. We know now that red 
corpuscles and good digestion are tremendous assets, 
not only for making a living, but also for the still more 
important business of making a life. Again and again 
an anem.ic body has been the cause of profound moral 
troubles; so that no college may content itself with 
teaching Greek well, if it leaves its students stoop- 
shouldered and flabby. It will fail, however well it 
teaches mathematics, if it graduates men hollow-chested 
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business of education to put the body at its best, to give 
sport its true emphasis, but from first to last subordi- 
nated to the end of winning the body to the higher ser- 
vice of Hfe, as a noble ministry to health and power, 
and buoyancy of spirit. 

3. The third peculiar task which I select as funda- 
mental to our mission, is the cultivation of a safe and 
sound moral freedom. When I was a boy, the ideal fence 
for a farm was bull-strong, pig-tight and sheep-high; 
and some such moral fence used to be thought necessary 
for young men. Something of that sort can still be 
built round the school boy in short pants ; but it cannot, 
in this country, be maintained round college men, and in 
most higher institutions the fences are nearly as flat as the 
walls of Jericho. "Guarded Education" has been pushed 
steadily down toward the kindergarten. The result has 
been serious, as everybody knows, and many a good fel- 
low in college has gone to wreck on this shoal of freedom. 
The university president tries to comfort us with the 
saying that "you cannot have an omelet without breaking 
eggs ;" but the proverb is poor comfort to a father who 
sees his son drifting into a spendthrift and loose-liver; 
and then, too, the parallel between a college man and 
an egg is plainly forced. A college is not a place for 
making omelets ; it is a place for making men, and if the 
old coercive hedges are to be taken down, something 
more effective must replace them. College men must be 
trained into the responsibilities of freedom; they must 
be helped to gain a rightly fashioned will; they must be 
surrounded with a moralizing atmosphere and with a 
group-spirit which in a subtle and subconscious way 
draws them toward ethical ideals. 

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This moral ministry, this cultivation of consecration 
to high moral ideals, is a primary part of true college 
education. "Take with you," says Goethe, "a holy 
earnestness, for earnestness makes life eternity." The 
thing that best justifies the existence of a college is that 
it best cultivates this virile moral earnestness in its stu- 
dents, and best fits them for the tasks of citizenship. 

No college, of course, can guarantee to turn every 
comer into a high horse-power saint, for some comers 
arrive with heavy handicaps, and it would require many 
patient years to untwist the moral snarl and tangle which 
some fellows have made of life. But we do want a col- 
lege which squarely faces the task of forming character 
in its men and whose professors regard their mission as 
a sacred trust. 

4. The fourth peculiar task which I select as funda- 
mental to our mission, is the cultivation of a genuine and 
robust religious life in our students. This was certainly 
the primary aim of our founders. They wanted Haver- 
ford to be a place where young men would find the 
reality of God and would fashion their lives to a divine 
pattern, would learn to love and follow the Christ. It 
has, in fact, been such a place at its best periods in the 
past. There is a special need for such a mission to-day. 
The unparalleled advance of scientific knowledge in the 
fields of nature and history during our generation, has 
made "Paley's Evidences" look as antiquated as the old 
high bicycle, and has shaken the foundations of many a 
man's faith. Here, again, a great many eggs have been 
broken to make the omelet. Many of the higher insti- 
tutions have felt the difficulties so great that they have 
practically dodged their religious mission and have con- 

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fined themselves to the busmess of imparting facts and 
advancing learning. It is, hov^ever, an impossible course, 
and is doomed to failure. Education involves the culti- 
vation of the whole person. Religion is the true ?nd 
consummate flowering of the personal life, and it cannot 
be cut apart from intellectual pursuits and treated as 
though it were an appendix compartment, to be dealt 
with only by churchmen. Here in college, or nowhere 
for the student, all his pursuits must converge, and he 
must form his religious ideals and aspirations to fit what 
he finds to be the truth. 

The Society of Friends has created Haverford, and 
this college must ever have as part of its mission the 
preparation for life and equipment for service of the 
sons of the Society that has created it. More and more, 
as years go on, the world shows and will show a readiness 
for the Quaker message and the Quaker conception of 
life. This ought to be a place where any serious stu- 
dent can acquire a clear insight of the message, and the 
type of life which the Society of Friends embodies. But 
it must never be a sectarian college in the restricted sense. 
We can have here no narrower aim than to teach the 
truth and to fix the central loyalty of the soul toward the 
supreme Master of men. 

There is a little town in the Italian Alps which has 
four churches, each one with a bell tower. They all ring 
the quarter hours, but there is so much variation in the 
clocks that there is an almost continual ringing, and 
the result is that the inhabitants never know what time 
it is ! Some such confusion has come from the theological 
din of sects and opinions. The college man wants a 
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sincerity, the same note of well-grounded reality, the 
same conviction-compelling quality in his religious guid- 
ance which he gets in his scientific studies. It is the 
mission of Haverford to realize that condition and to 
help men to see that religion belongs to the eternal nature 
of things and to give in our religious meetings, as 
Friends of an earlier time did, a first-hand evidence of 
the real presence of God. 

Those are some of the demands which justify our ex- 
istence as a college, and which open before us an ex- 
alted mission. 

The Ability of' Havejri^grd to Satisfy the Demands 

OF THE Past and Present. 

Isaac Sharpless. 

In the two papers which have been read, some of the 
conditions have been indicated which make the existence 
of such a college as Haverford desirable or necessary. 
It remains to consider how faithfully the college of the 
present and recent past is fulfilling the purposes of its 
being, and what chances there are that the college of the 
near future will be more efficient and more productive of 
results. 

The dead hand has not borne heavily upon us. Oui 
founders and forebears have not laid upon us heavy bur- 
dens from which we have not been able to escape. We 
have had a denominational purpose, but no part of this 
purpose has been the making of converts from other 
Christian bodies. The original applicants for a charter, 
when charged by opponents with some such atrocious in- 
tention, replied that this was impossible because no one 
but Friends would be admitted. This relieves us from 

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the obligation to make any such attempts in later days. 
Tlie purpose they had in view, to make more loyal and 
better informed Friends, is still in our program, only we 
think that we can better accomplish it, by at the same 
time and under the same conditions, making better and 
more loyal members of any other religious body. We 
have added to the original purpose, but not deducted any- 
thing from it. 

Nor have the financial benefactors of the college in the 
decades since 1830, created any burdensome conditions. 
Of the $1,280,000 of endowment bearing interest, the 
income of about $883,000 is practically unconditioned, 
the income of about $274,000 must be used for pay- 
ment for necessary instruction, of about $50,000 for 
the support of the library and of about $80,000 for 
scholarships. Surely no one would want these changed, 
except to increase them. Not one dollar is tied down to 
an unnecessary use. 

Being free, then, both as to principles and finances to 
create such a college as our conceptions of the demands 
of the times and of our special constituency require, our 
friends may properly ask what use has been made of 
the liberty and what sort of an institution stands here 
to carry out the vast sacrifices of these trustful friends 
of the past. 

It is a fair question, and deserves a frank answer, and 
if, in giving it, the hopes for the future unconsciously 
modify the statement of the present, it will be a natural 
and not very serious mistake. Ideals may not accurately 
express actual conditions, but they undoubtedly explain 
them. 

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conception has been unusually prominent that the char- 
acter of the teaching force would be the key to the situ- 
ation. Physical comforts and sanitary conditions have 
not been forgotten, as witness our great acreage, our 
beautiful lawn and our comfortable, if not expensive 
buildings. But back of this, and not far back of it, we 
have always said, that all this is of no avail unless men 
of scholarship and character exert their intellectual and 
moral influence upon the plastic material in the students' 
dormitories. In early days there was associated with this 
a lot of guards and restrictions which were intended to 
have a profound moral and spiritual influence. We 
have given up many of these, not because we are less 
solicitous, but because we think that more liberty produces 
better results. We are heading for the same destination, 
but by a different route. 

The only substitute for regulations is influence, and 
the man who can exert strong positive beneficent influ- 
ence upon college students is one of the rarest of mor- 
tals. We must have scholarship in our teachers, high, 
true, real scholarship, not pedantry or surface-knowl- 
edge, but scholarship obtained by severe study, super- 
imposed upon acute intellect and sound common sense — 
scholarship which has a tendency to reproduce itself in 
sympathetic minds, and which is automatically responded 
to in ambitious and practical effort. This expresses the 
intellectual qualification of the professor. But sometimes 
this is associated with a character or habits which no 
parent would wish to see reproduced, with an indolence 
which avoids opportunities, or a cowardice which shirks 
responsibility. Such a man is only half a man for col- 
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type of example, a man among men, a man of force and 
an honest conviction which is to him so full of meaning 
that he must omit no chance to communicate it, a man 
that cannot tolerate shams, or promises that cannot be 
made good, that does not look lightly on moral dissi- 
pation or the permanent loss of the best life that results 
from it, — to whom, in after years, his students will look 
back with the respect that follows a great, strong, honest 
man, and say that they have tried to be like him, and in 
many a crisis the thought of what he would do in the 
emergency, has nerved them to give the best that is in 
them and not lie down. 

In every decade of its history, Haverford has had such 
men, working ofttimes quietly unknown to the world, 
a continuous line of them for seventy-five years, felt in 
the lives of some two thousand students. I cannot do 
other than assert, as I note the work of the men with 
whom I am now associated, that we have not fallen either 
in scholarship or moral force, below the best days of the 
past. The problems have become greatly complicated by 
increase of numbers. In 1875 we had forty-three stu- 
dents, now we have one hundred and sixty. This is still 
a very modest number, though it is the measure of our 
capacity, but it necessitates a distribution through several 
halls and a new system of government. It means larger 
classes and division of classes, a division which election 
of studies as well as size necessarily produces. It means 
more general momentum, more contact with outside influ- 
ences and other colleges. The faculty has met these 
problems as they have arisen with at least sufficient wis- 
dom to adapt our methods to the needs of the new 
conditions and to maintain a scholarly spirit. When 

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our graduates meet those of other institutions, in graduate 
and technical schools, they do not find much to condemn 
in the training they have received. 

It is, however, better that I should quote from an 
outside authority of undoubted knowledge and impartial- 
ity. "The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of 
Teaching," whose main function is to distribute the in- 
come of fifteen millions of dollars among retiring pro- 
fessors (a gratuity from which we are excluded), has 
become through its inquiries into educational conditions 
among our higher institutions, a sort of a clearing-house 
for collegiate ideas. It is therefore with great satisfac- 
tion that the friends of Haverford will read the report 
issued last spring which contains this statement : 

"One of the most striking of these policies is that 
adopted by Haverford College. The income of Haver- 
ford College is exceeded by the income of about one 
hundred and fifteen colleges and universities in the 
United States and Canada, but only eight of these one 
hundred and fifteen institutions pay higher salaries to 
their professors. The least rich of these eight has an 
income six times larger than Haverford. That the policy 
of the college is to concentrate its energies upon salaries 
rather than equipment and other expenses can be seen 
also from the following note, appended by the college au- 
thorities to the answer returned to the inquiries of the 
Foundation : "The expense of teaching is great : ( i ) 
because this is an expensive suburb of Philadelphia and 
rents and wages are high; (2) because we have very few 
men in lower grades, but professors teach lower as well 
as upper classes; (3) because we want men of human 
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choice is limited; (4) because we mean to keep some men 
who would command high salaries in the best universi- 
ties." In the light of this announcement by the college 
authorities, it is not surprising that the faculty at Haver- 
ford is of very high merit. 

"It should be noted that this high average of the Haver- 
ford professors does not mean good salaries paid to some 
men at the expense of the incomes of other men. The 
Haverford associate professor and instructor hold the 
same relative financial position among associate profes- 
sors as the Haverford full professors among full profes- 
sors. It is evident, also, that these high salaries do not 
mean the combination of what would be two salaries else- 
where, and therefore an unusual burden of work placed 
upon the Haverford teacher, for the proportion of pro- 
fessors to students is one to eleven, and the proportion 
of the entire instructing force to students is one to seven. 
The entrance requirements of Haverford are equal to 
those required by the largest universities, and it is one 
of the thirteen colleges and universities in the United 
States, requiring fourteen units or over for admission, 
that admits students to the freshman class only by exam- 
ination. Haverford College is, therefore, apparently en- 
titled to the conspicuous credit of having placed before 
everything else the consideration of its teachers." 

This unsolicited statement seems to cover several points 
in the policy of Haverford — a standard at entrance prac- 
tically equivalent to that of our best institutions — exami- 
nations for entrance instead of the often abused certificate 
system — provision for individual teachers' salaries as 
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to increase it — and a number of teachers sufficient to in- 
sure a large amount of attention to individual needs. 

But besides this constant effort to develop the faculty 
by the selection and retention of fitting men, there has 
been all through our history another effort no less earn- 
estly pursued, — the maintenance of a clean student body. 
How conscientiously this object was sought through 
the early days of the college, the records both of Board 
and faculty abundantly show. Indeed, the object was 
pursued almost too assiduously and too directly. The 
simple enactment of regulations against evil and the rigid 
enforcement of these regulations do not always produce 
the result desired. And though the young men came 
generally from homes of unusual excellence, there have 
been timxs when the spirit of resistance to authority has 
carried our ancient Haverfordians into deeds which indi- 
cate that there has not been any vast degeneracy in 
human nature from their time to ours. 

One of the safeguards of moral standards in a college 
is the serious enforcement of intellectual standards. 
There are excellent boys who are intellectually dull, and 
there are bright boys who are bad. But if the lower ten 
per cent, of a college intellectually, is eliminated, the 
questions of morals and discipline are reduced in gravity 
seventy-five per cent. A college keyed up to its duty 
does not run seriously into either mental or moral dissi- 
pation. 

Assuming this, we have felt that the best that we, as 
members of the faculty, could do was to aid in the devel- 
opment of such influences among the students as would 
make the morals self-sustaining, not dependent upon re- 
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small college might be the best or the worst place in the 
world for a boy. In a large body he can find both good 
and bad and choose his associates from either class. But 
if the seeds of evil once become strong in a small insti- 
tution, they so contaminate the springs of influence that 
the disease becomes epidemic. Young men usually want 
to do right. When they go otherwise it is against their 
judgment and often against their will. Goodness is nor- 
mal, though not always easy. It needs encouragement 
and then it springs into activity and becomes contagious. 
Bad fellows must be eliminated. The conditions we de- 
sire and to which we have measurably attained, is that un- 
spoiled young men will always be improved, and that 
spoiled young men will not wish to come to us. The 
atmosphere of the place will not be congenial to them. 

This sounds a little snobbish. I have no desire to 
assert our superior goodness, as compared with other 
colleges. I only wish to convince our good friends of 
the past that the concern which animated them still re- 
mains, and that while we have changed the methods, we 
do not believe that we have suffered, but are still alive to 
our responsibilities. We know that great pains are still 
needed to maintain moral standards. 

These two matters, an efficient faculty and a clean 
student body, closely connected as indeed they are, are 
the fundamental features of Haverford. We have as all 
can see a beautiful and accessible site of two hundred 
and twenty-five acres. We have buildings inadequate in 
certain respects to our present needs, but pleasing and 
convenient. We have an endowment which permits us 
to maintain ourselves with proper self-restraint without 
debt, but which is not sufficient to do much in the way 

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of improvements. We have a body of friends who be- 
lieve in us and support us liberally, and though many 
colleges have had larger single donations of money than 
ourselves, we doubt whether there be any alumni that 
year after year in proportion to numbers, so generously 
and cheerfully minister to the needs of their college. We 
take much satisfaction in all these matters, which do so 
much to lighten our burdens and influence the quality of 
Haverford men. But the ultimate purpose of the college 
is not to make money or to erect buildings or to swell 
the number of students, or to increase endowment, or to 
minister to the sentiments of alumni, or to provide homes 
for an efficient faculty. All of these things, pleasant and 
needful as they are, are means to the end of sending out 
year after year a body of men, strong in their intellectual- 
ity, earnest and high in their purposes and clean and hon- 
est in their lives. It is better to turn out one hundred 
of such men than ten, but it is better to turn out ten 
than one hundred weak and superficial scholars and 
characters. Haverford will grow (I do not see how it 
can be avoided), in numbers and equipment, as fast as it 
can without sacrificing standards of any kind, but if at 
the same time it does not grow in the qualities which 
make strong leaders of men in right ways, it will be un- 
true to its seventy-five years of history. 

Some one has classified our higher schools as follows : 
State institutions, Carnegie institutions and church in- 
stitutions. As we evidently are not in either of the first 
two classes, we must be in the third. Personally, it seems 
to me rather unfortunate for the cause of best education 
that the distinguished donor has chosen to throw his 
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tions, by excepting them from his pension benefits. It is 
doubtful whether the cause of rehgion, I do not mean 
dogma, can be so well taken care of elsewhere. The 
denominational colleges, so far as I know, are not de- 
nominational either in restrictions or favors among the 
students. Whatever may have been the past history of 
some of them, they do not in general give even furtively, 
dogmatic teaching to those outside the fold of their 
founders. Certainly the whole spirit of the body which 
has in large part managed Haverford would not permil 
any insistence upon creed or legend. It has never had a 
creed, and never been selfishly denominational. But the 
denominational control does usually bring a certain en- 
couragement of religious teaching and tendencies of a 
wholesome general sort, which one can hardly want omit- 
ted from collegiate life. Why should this primal impulse, 
religion, this great incentive to morality, to civic duty, to 
human service, not be made a potent factor in an institu- 
tion whose purpose is to educate leaders in State and 
church and society ? Can we excuse ourselves to the best 
patriotism and the best ideals of our country if it is not 
made pervasive? There is, of course, much of it in 
State and Carnegie institutions. But the loss of Biblical 
knowledge made necessary by our State system, the 
avoidance of it elsewhere by the slur often thrown upon 
sectarian training, make one doubtful whether the nation 
can afford to abolish or weaken the one set of institutions 
in which the principles and practices of our religion may 
be taught to our intellectual classes without hesitation or 
apology. It looks to me as if a few years hence would 
see a rally of the Christian churches to Christian educa- 
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definite exponents. It may and doubtless will find them 
in the voluntary activities of the State and Carnegie in- 
stitutions, but voluntary activities are sometimes spas- 
modic and sometimes irresponsible. For steady scientific 
organization of Christian effort and influence, it seems to 
me that the church colleges may have a very large place. 

The ideal of Haverford (to quote words used else- 
where) is to give to a limited number of young men 
(and the number is of less consequence than the quality 
of the conditions which surround them) every advantage, 
physical, intellectual and religious which a good endow- 
ment and a definite sense of responsibility can supply, 

I do not know how many other colleges have this pro- 
gram. Probably not many. Many of them measure 
their success by the number of students, and in most 
cases, this is a fair criterion. We speak no word and have 
no thought in opposition or criticism. But it seem.s to 
us that there is room for a class that makes numbers 
secondary to standards — which, in fact, deliberately pre- 
fers small numbers until quite sure that its peculiar ad- 
vantages can be secured by an increase. In this class 
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INFORMAL MEETING IN ROBERTS HALL. 

October ly, 1908, j.^o P. M. 

William W. Comfort, '94, Chairman. 

(The meeting was opened by singing.) 
The Chairman : Ladies and Gentlemen: 
We have met for the last act in the play which has been 
going on now for more than twenty-four hours with 
uninterrupted pleasure to us all ("Hear! hear!"). The 
heavy part of the program was carried out yesterday 
with marked success. This evening, as you have already 
noticed, the lid is off, and this meeting is entirely in your 
hands. There is a certain program — a tentative program 
— which has been arranged by the committee and which 
I shall try to put through ; but if at any point this meet- 
ing gets out of my control, you will have only yourselves 
to blame for it. 

I have a certain number of speakers whom I should 
like to get up here to-night to make speeches. Some of 
them have gone away in terror — gone back to New York ; 
others are still with us, and I am going to try to hold 
them. I have, first, two or three announcements to make, 
which will necessarily take a few moments ; and then I 
shall be done with my part. 

This is an opportunity, first, to mention a few brief mes- 
sages of remarkable interest that have been sent to this 
gathering from our graduates and from other colleges. 
I want to refer, first, to a letter written to the secretary 
of the general committee by the gentleman whose name 
stands first in the matriculate catalogue of Haverford 

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College. I refer to Mr. David Stroud Burson. Mr. 
Burson was here in 1834 and 1835 ; and he is now a 
resident near Richmond, Indiana. At the age of 92 
he wrote a letter in his own hand that has come to this 
gathering, and I have no hesitation in saying that he is 
the oldest living student of Haverford College. We 
should like to propose that a telegram be sent to Mr. 
Burson informing him of our congratulations and good 
wishes. (Applause and cheers.) (This was done, and 
an appreciative reply received from Mr. Burson.) 

The second letter of great interest is from Mr. Francis 
R. Cope, of Germantown, who sends us his heart-felt 
greetings. Mr. Cope was a student in this college from 
1835 to 1838. (Applause and cheers.) Mr. Cyrus Lind- 
ley, of the class of '60, writes from Sacramento, Califor- 
nia, expressing regret at his inability to meet with the 
other members of a distinguished class. 

From sister colleges have come some particularly warm 
expressions of sympathy which could not be read yester- 
day. I should like to refer particularly to letters from 
President Thomas, of Bryn Mawr College (applause), 
President Garfield, of Williams College (applause), 
President Drinker, of Lehigh University (applause), and 
President Luther, of Trinity College (applause). 

Can you stand a little Latin, ladies and gentlemen ? We 
have some here. Latin is going out of the curriculum, 
and I think there has been no Latin quoted either yester- 
day or to-day in my hearing. I have a letter here from 
the University of California appropriately inscribed in 
Latin. If I read a few lines, it may be with the Romance 
pronunciation. The burden of these remarks, I might 
say, is entirely complimentary (applause and laughter), 

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and I have no fear but what the older students will under- 
stand it to be so, but I have some fears for my own stu- 
dents. If you will listen very carefully you will pick up 
the main points. After the formal salutation, it goes on : 

"Et nos in extremis finibus patriae communis adoles- 
centes docemus ut non doctiores solum sed meliores etiam 
doctrina imbuti fiant et nos quoque speramus alumnos sic- 
ut vestros moribus scientia robore numquam ad ostenta- 
tionem vulgarem quaesitis ex aedibus academicis prodi- 
turos esse." (Applause.) Signed, "Benjamin Ide 
Wheeler." 

Greetings have come to this meeting from Haverford- 
ians who are at Harvard University in a telegram signed 
by Spiers, '02 ; Cadbury, '03 ; Brinton, '04 ; Shortlidge, 
'06; Sargent, '08; Baily, '08, and Wilson, '10. (Applause, 
and cheers for Harvard.) 

Our influence has spread beyond the Pacific. The ac- 
count of the work which has been done by Robert L. 
Simkin, of the class of 1903, has been given to you at the 
door. I ask your attention to that little document when 
you go to your homes. If it interests you, let us hear 
from you. Some of us believe that Simkin is going to do, 
and is already doing, a great work. When he wrote me. 
he said that he was the only man who wore a varsity "H" 
so far as he knew, in West China — a district about as 
large in population as the United States and Canada, I 
understand ; but that he would give several large "Yo, 
Yo, Yo's !" for Haver ford in memory of to-night's occa- 
sion. (Applause.) 

I have here a cablegram from a Japanese who was 
here in 1902, and who sends a cablegram from Tokio : 
''Congratulate seventy-fifth anniversary." (Applause.) 

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I will ask President Sharpless to make an announce- 
ment at this time; and I am sure you will all give him 
your earnest attention and let us have a few moments of 
silence. (Applause deafening.) (Haverford yell.) 

President Sharpless: I thank you very kindly for 
your greeting. I came up here at the behest of Henry 
Cope (with whom most of you are acquainted) to make 
an announcement concerning the subscriptions (that some 
of you also have heard of). It was decided last spring 
at a little meeting of the alumni, which has had this 
matter in charge, that it might be well, if any Haver- 
fordians felt inclined to donate some of their funds to 
Haverford College, to have something to propose to 
them ; and it was suggested that we should undertake to 
raise two funds each of $50,000; that the fund for a 
chemical section of the Science Hall should be raised by 
the classes, each class taking care of its own contribu- 
tion; that the other fund as a pension fund for retiring 
professors, to enable us to meet the competition of the 
Carnegie ofifers which are likely to be made to our pro- 
fessors to go to their institutions, should be raised by 
other people, not necessarily collected by the classes : It 
was hoped to be by larger subscription than the average 
Haverfordian of a few years' standing could give. 

The total amount of subscriptions to these two funds is 
just about $75,000. Seventy-five seems to be a historic 
word for us to-day. (Applause.) I cannot state just 
how it is divided between the two funds, because a num- 
ber of people who have subscribed have not intimated 
which fund they desire subscriptions to go to. Neither 
fund, however, is entirely complete; but we do not con- 
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propose to raise both of these funds. The work is going 
on very satisfactorily considering the very trying busi- 
ness conditions of the times ; and a good many men have 
intimated that after the Presidential election, if it goes 
the right way, they may be able to make subscriptions. 
In quite a number of cases the classes still desire further 
time to enable them to complete their quotas. I think 
there is every reason to believe, with the continued loy- 
alty of Haverfordians to the project, that the total fund 
will be raised in the course of a few months. (Applause.) 

The Chairman : There is one more very interesting 
announcement to make which I am sure every Haverford- 
ian in this room will wish to hear. I am going to ask 
Dr. Walter Morris Hart, of the class of '92, now Assist- 
ant Professor of English at the University of California, 
to miake that announcement. (Applause.) 

Walter Morris Hart : To-night, when our festivi- 
ties are drawing to a close, when the formalities are over, 
and this great Haverford family is gathered beneath its 
foster mother's hospitable roof, we may permit ourselves 
to dwell upon the more intimate and personal aspect of 
our celebration. Few of us, I imagine, as we linger over 
the memories of our college days, remember very much 
of what was taught us in the class-room. What we do 
remember, what we can never forget, is the personalities 
of the teachers with whom we came in contact. It was 
they who formed for us our tastes, who inspired us with 
higher ideals. Again and again during the past few 
days there has come into my mind that splendid open- 
ing of Arnold's Essay on Emerson that was so happily 
quoted this afternoon. You will remember the words : 
"Forty years ago, when I was an undergraduate at Ox- 

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ford, voices were in the air there which haunt my mem- 
ory still. Happy the man who, m that susceptible season 
of youth, hears such voices ; they are a possession to him 
forever." Our memories, too, are haunted by such 
voices ; for some of us one voice is supreme, for some 
of us another. It is no small group, I know, that has 
been most deeply influenced by the voice of the great 
teacher and scholar who came to Haver ford just twenty 
years ago — by the voice of Dr. Gummere. (Applause, 
and Haverford yell.) 

It has been thought that this twentieth anniversary 
should not pass unnoticed. It occurred to some of us 
that it might be most fittingly celebrated, in the pleasant 
German fashion, by the preparation of a volume of 
essays by former students. The men who were asked to 
contribute to such a volume gave an immediate and 
enthusiastic consent. I have here before you the re- 
sults. I am going to read the table of contents, since 
it shows, by the variety of the subjects of the essays, and 
the institutions with which the writers are now connected, 
the widespread influence of one important phase of the 
Haverford spirit. (Reads.) 

I. The Younger Wordsworth. 

C. H. Burr, A. M. (Haverford), Philadelphia. 
II. Ipomedon, An Illustration of Romance Origin. 

C. H. Carter, Ph. D. (Harvard), Syracuse University. 
HI. The Moors in Spanish Popular Poetry Before 1600. 

W. W. Comfort, Ph. D. (Harvard), Plaverford College. 
IV. The Franklin's Tale. 

W. M. Hart, Ph. D. (Harvard), Leland Stanford, Jr., Univ. 
V. George Herbert; An Interpretation. 

W. S. Hinchman, A. M. (Harvard), Groton School. 
VI. The Logical Structure of Argument. 

C. G. Hoag, A. M. (Harvard), University Pennsylvania. 

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VII. Some Franco -Scottish Influences on the Eari,y 
English Drama. 

J. A. Lester, Ph. D. (Harvard), Hill School. 
VIII. On Milton's Knowledge of Music. 

S. G. Spaeth, A. M. (Haverford), Princeton University. 
IX. Vita Nuova, 24-28. 

A. G. H. Spiers, A. M. (Harvard), Harvard University. 
X. Heine and Tennyson; An Essay in Comparative 
Criticism. 
C. W. Stork, Ph. D. (Penn.), University of Pennsylvania. 

This volume is, in the first place, a tribute to the great 
scholar, to the man who stands in the very front rank 
of American scholarship, and who in his own special field 
is everywhere recognized as the supreme authority. But 
this volume means something more than this : it is not 
a mere academic tribute by a small group of scholars to 
their master. It is, rather, a sign and symbol of the 
affection and esteem in which we all hold the great 
teacher who by his contagious enthusiasm, has led a mul- 
titude of men to know and love the best that is in litera- 
ture. (Applause.) 

(Amid the deafening applause, the chairman gave an 
invitation to which the following was the response.) 

Dr. Gumme^re^: This is very hard to bear. There is 
an old tree just a little north of my piazza which re- 
minds me very much of myself at this minute. It has 
been struck by lightning; most of the bark has peeled off 
one side, where it has been painted red ; and it is still 
producing chestnuts. (Applause and laughter.) 

I am not supposed to utter any thing; and I shall take 
my seat presently and hide my diminished head. I do 
not want to; still, there doesn't seem to be anything else 
to do. I should like to weep ; but that is not according to 

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the convenances, and I am going to express my thanks to 
Professor Hart, and to those who have contributed to 
this volume, in the simplest manner I can; but it is 
impossible for me to take my seat without saying a little 
something more about the privilege that a man has had 
in the twenty years of work that I have been trying to do 
here at Haverford; and I won't try to return the com- 
pliment by calling attention to the distinguished men 
(already distinguished, and distinguished in embryo), 
whose names you have heard. Those essays in their 
day will shake the world and I shall tremble with the 
vibrations in sympathy! 

I know some of those men as scholars of the first class 
who know what they are talking about and who have, I 
hope, the one quality that I want to emphasize to-night, 
which I should emphasize if I were to teach for twenty 
years more, and that is, the quality of intellectual hon- 
esty. I believe that the whole influence of this college 
makes for intellectual honesty. If we can train our fel- 
lows here not to say that they know things unless they 
really do know them; if we can put up that splendid 
passage — Professor Gifford is here somewhere and can 
tell me whether in the Phaedo or in the Apology, — where 
Socrates, about to die, says that if the State is going 
to educate his sons he hopes they will do well by them ; 
and what he means by doing well by them is this — that 
if at any time they think that they know something 
when they really do not know anything, the State should 
punish them. 

Haverford teaches us something of that kind ; and I 
think that from the top of our edifice down — I don't 
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seem like the class that had an exhibition here once and 
raised a little sign of "Joke !" on it ; I didn't want to do 
too much of that laudatory character; but I do think 
that what we try to stand for here is for the principle of 
intellectual honesty. It means so much. It means that 
the man who has the reputation for intellectual honesty 
is taken at his word ; and we know the disastrous conse- 
quences that sometimes follow a man who is conscious 
that he cannot be taken at his word. 

Before taking my seat, I want, first of all, to thank 
those men from my heart who have contributed to this. 
There is nothing that has ever happened — I hate the ego- 
tistic tone, but I have to take it — nothing has ever hap- 
pened in my life that has given such pleasure — more than 
pleasure — satisfaction, than to see those ten names ; 
and I w'ant to thank them most sincerely for a volume that 
I shall treasure as I shall treasure nothing else. They 
know that a great part of that teaching which we do here 
in this Faculty and which tends to intellectual honesty, \? 
due to the example of the man who stands at the head of 
this college. (Applause.) I thank the men who have con- 
tributed to this ; but I specially thank President Sharp- 
less for the backing that he has given to every man in 
the Faculty in the twenty years I have had the privilege 
of teaching here. (Applause.) 

The Chairman : Ladies and Gentlemen: 

1 propose to begin now the serious part of the entertain- 
ment with the introduction of those gentlemen who have 
at least once, and some twice, promised to be here to- 
night and make a few remarks. I am going to ask, first, 
if Mr. Albert K. Smiley, of the class of '49, is present? 

(A voice: "He has gone to town.") 

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The Chairman : I was going to propose that we 
listen to Mr. Albert K. Smiley, A.B., of the class of '49, 
and IvL.D., of this college in '06, well known to many 
as a genial host; known to many as a trustee of Bryn 
Mawr College ; known to every one here for his services 
to the Indians and in behalf of peace. Gentlemen, I 
regret that Mr. Smiley is not here. 

I pass on through two others, one from Baltimore and 
one from New York, who have deserted us, and I come 
to Dr. Richard M. Jones, A.B., of the class of '6y; A.M., 
'79; LL.D., '91; known to all of us as headmaster of 
the William Penn Charter School ; in the spirit, father 
of many Haverfordians. In him we honor a great 
name. (Applause.) 

Remarks of Richard M. Jones. 

Dear Brothers: There is inspiration in this gathering, 
to say nothing of the occasion which called it forth. My 
heart is absolutely full of thankfulness and gratitude; 
first, because I made a landing on this particular planet; 
second, because I got into this college. "If I were not 
Miltiades I would be Themistocles ;" if I were not a 
Maine Yankee I would be a Pennsylvanian, but a Haver- 
fordian anyhow. 

By this time you have inferred that I am an optimist. 
Those of you who came here prepared to listen to a 
rhapsody on the days that are gone, opening with : "In 
my time," are doomed to disappointment. The Haver- 
ford of forty or fifty years ago was the best Haverford 
for that time, but not for this. 

The guarded education theory is a beautiful one — to 
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of sinlessness, but it is character that counts in this age. 
It is the trees that have been exposed to the four winds 
of heaven that withstand the tempest. The Haverford of 
to-day aims to meet this situation. 

It was my good fortune to live for nearly twenty years 
on these grounds, a location which presents unusual 
opportunities for learning anything derogatory to the 
college. There was nothing of the kind to be learned. 
It is my conviction, and I am not alone in this, that there 
is no college in this country that religiously and morally 
rings so true as this college. 

Now, dear brothers, to what do we owe all this? 
Doubtless to various causes, but chiefly to our President, 
not "Teddy" be it understood, but "Ikie." It has been 
said "We live but a short time; we are dead a long 
time." If we wish to say anything appreciative of a 
deserving man, the time to say it is right now while he 
lives. There is probably no man in the Society of 
Friends to-day who could have done for this college what 
Isaac Sharpless has done. In him is realized the good, 
old Quaker ideal — deeds, not words. No language can 
express my satisfaction in saying this. My only regret 
is that the source cannot lend more weight to the words, 
but in my soul I feel that you are with me. 

I have referred first to the religious and moral side 
of the college because of its infinitely greater importance. 
As I approach the intellectual side, you may be looking- 
for an indictment of the elective system. That system 
was inevitable as the field of knowledge and investigation 
broadened. Fighting the inevitable is not good for the 
soul. There are, to be sure, some of us who believe that 
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other group to form the foundation of a young man's pro- 
fessional or business career, but the present state of things 
does not disturb us. We see that the pendukim has 
swung to its Hmit in that direction, and that it is now 
slowly but surely returning, finally to swing in its true 
arc. It is, therefore, cause for sincere congratulation 
that our alma mater is traveling in the middle of the road. 

Just a word in regard to the athletic situation, and I 
have done. A few years ago it became evident to those 
who control the athletics of the college that the relation, 
then existing between Haverford and a sister college with 
which she had long been associated in a certain branch of 
sport, must be severed. When that step was taken the 
clock struck twelve. The manner of taking that step 
was equally admirable. We now know from what we 
were saved. But that is not all we have to be thankful 
for. To witness the games of the fellows out here is to 
learn the meaning of the word sportsmanship. The 
drivel and the cant about purity in athletics (always 
present in inverse ratio to the amount of atmospheric 
disturbances occasioned in its behalf) are not indulged in 
here, for the simple reason that there is no need of it. 
Every Haverfordian past, present and future, should 
thank Heaven that this is the case. Broad, sportsmanlike 
and true in her policy with the games she plays, let her 
be equally so in her choice of games, never for a moment 
forgetting that this is an American college, a nursery 
of American citizens; that the day is long past, if it ever 
were here, when it is necessary to make a periodical pil- 
grimage to Europe to apologize for being an xA.merican 
or to ascertain what is the proper thing to do next. 

An American is loyal to the marrow or he is nothing. 

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And to what sort of country is it his privilege to be thus 
loyal ? 

Hope of the world! thou hast broken its chains; 

Wear thy bright crown while a tyrant remains ; 

Stand for the right till the nations shall own 

Freedom their sovereign with Law for her throne. 

The Chairman : I hoped that Dr. Randolph Wins- 
low, '71, of Baltimore, would address us, but Dr. Wins- 
low has gone. Never mind, I see one gentleman who 
has not left — don't let him out! Mr. William A. Blair, 
A.B., of the class of '81 — one of our leading graduates 
south of the Mason & Dixon line, a tar heel from North 
Carolina, with a talent for organization and management 
of everything within sight, be it politics, schools, rail- 
ways or banks. I will call on Mr. Blair to respond for 
the Solid South. (Applause.) 

Re:marks of WiIvUam a. Blair, 
Some time ago it was my privilege to be entertained in 
a delightfully appointed London club house. A cultured 
Briton, with one eye behind a window pane, courteously 
inquired from what part of great America I came. 
"From Carolina, in the fair Southland," I answered. 
"Neah New York?" he asked. "No, 'tis further South," 
I said, "where a deeper blue is in the sky, a brighter 
sparkle in the stars, where the grass is greener, the 
flowers more fragrant and painted with a softer hue, 
where the air is clearer, the water sweeter and purer, 
the women fairer." "Ah, weally awound Boston, then, 
don't you know?" — and I let it pass at that. This un- 
known Southland, blessed with a perfect climate, and 
a fertile soil, teems with mineral wealth, virgin forests, 
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been rolled away from the door of the sepulchre of our 
progress. On every hand we are greeted with the whirr 
of machinery, the whistle of engine, the growth of 
agriculture and commerce, of wealth and power and 
trade. Our practical, and perhaps, more materialistic 
brethren of the North, are sending us now, not slaves, 
but capital, not the sons of Africa, but their own sons. 
The shackles of toil have been stricken from human 
hands, and we are at work with the audacity of genius 
in binding them upon the moving winds, the rushing 
waters, the tireless streams, and the electric currents. 
By elevating and correcting her ideals of citizenship, by 
putting education and culture, thrift and morality, busi- 
ness and development before politics, the South is gain- 
ing- in peace what she lost in war, and is again taking 
her place in the very front rank of the world's onward 
and upward march. Everywhere in the vanguard of this 
great movement, in numbers surprising, in influence 
unequalled, stand Haverford men, who could truthfully 
say more than "Pars quorum fui." These Quaker- 
trained men, in Church and State, in pulpit and pew, in 
factory and in office, in colleges and in schools, in court- 
house and in legislative halls, "know the right, and 
knowing, dare to do." We can depend upon them 
always, everywhere. You say that blood will tell ! 'Tis 
true ! and careful, prayerful, honest, thorough, earnest 
training tells. It is for men such as these that I have 
the honor to speak to-night. For them and in their 
behalf, upon this her birthday, do I a loving, tender trib- 
ute bring to their alma mater, and to yours and mine. 

"Blest be her memory ! Let it grow 
Greener with years and blossom through the flight of ages." 

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This great gathering is for her a simpler, sweeter, 
tenderer, grander monument, methinks, than any work 
of art of high design from mighty mortals, godlike 
hands. Our celebration consummates the hopes and 
prayers of those who for generations three have gone 
before. Haverford approximates, nay, perhaps, fulfills 
the ideals, visions, dreams our fathers had. To a strong- 
fortress of consecrated Christian liberty and learning they 
looked, and not in vain, for here it is ! How grandly it 
has grown, developed, and improved ! Within the 
memory of us all great changes have been wrought. But 
what shall future days bring forth? Backward moves 
the man, the college, or the race when progress stops, 
"Facilis descensus Averno," O how true! 

Clinging to all the best the old can give, we must 
reach out for all the best in all the new. Stagnation 
would be but the precursor, dreary, of a sad and certain 
death. The glory of the California trees is not in age 
or size, but in vitality. Let this great day inspire us, then, 
and let us in our hearts declare that for our sons, and 
their sons' sons, for the faith we follow fast, and the 
liberty we love, for the learning that we honor, the re- 
ligion that we hallow, Haverford shall stand, until 
answered are all prayers of all the old, and fulfilled the 
hopes of all the young ; then shall all science, culture, art, 
and truth, nurselings of a civilization full and rich, be 
nourished at her breast, and she, not alone shall live, 
but greater, grander grow until the pall of ignorance is 
lifted up, high citizenship enjoyed and understood, and 
the light, the blessed light which intelligence, morality, 
and religion give, shall flash its brightening beams athwart 
the sky and cover all the world with its life-giving rays. 

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("Dixie" then sung.) 

The Chairman : Thank you for that very tactful 
tune. I am glad that something is done to let Mr. Blair 
know that we appreciate his coming from a distance, and 
that we realize what his feelings are. 

I return to Philadelphia, in the person of Mr. Alfred 
Percival Smith, A.B., of the class of '84; a member of 
the Philadelphia Bar ; for many years a fosterer of debat- 
ing and public speaking in this College; donor of a 
building, soon to be erected upon this campus, to be 
devoted to the use of the Y. M. C. A. and of other under- 
graduate organizations. I present to you Mr. Alfred 
Percival Smith. (Applause.) 

Re;marks of AivFre^d PercivaIv Smith. 

I wish, gentlemen, that I were as gifted as the silver- 
tongued orator, who has just preceded me; but I feel 
very much more like the German, from somewhere in the 
West, who got through a very short speech of introduc- 
tion, though I don't believe I can get through quite so 
soon ; if I could, I would perhaps feel more comfortable. 
My having accepted the invitation from Dr. Comfort 
to say a few words, reminds me a little of the predica- 
ment a certain eminent gentleman got himself into, which 
is illustrated by a story that perhaps you may not all 
have heard. 

I think it was Mark Twain, who was recently asked 
whether he had known, at a certain time in his life. Gen- 
eral Miles, when the General was not living in New 
York, but in Washington ; and he said that he did know 
him then, but, unfortunately, he didn't like to talk about 
the incident; and he told this story. He said that he 

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was down there in those early days and scratching pretty 
Hvely for a Hving; that on a certain occasion he was 
short about $2.50 in his board bill. He wandered into 
a hotel where General Miles was living. As he was 
amusing himself wandering around, he saw a nice dog; 
and while he was patting this dog, talking to it, wonder- 
ing how he was ever going to get that $2.50, IMiles came 
along and wanted to know whether he wouldn't sell him 
the dog. He said he would sell him the dog for $5. 
That seemed too much for the General, so he reduced the 
price, and secured his two and a half. He felt a little 
bit guilty, Twain did, when he got that two and a half. 
He knew he hadn't sold his own dog; he had the two 
and a half — that got him out of trouble — but he wasn't 
out of the hotel with the two and a half; but, as the tale 
further relates, he came out all right, and I'll tell you 
the rest of the story. 

The story runs this way : Shortly after the General 
had taken this nice dog up to his room, a lady appeared 
on the scene and inquired for her dog. Mark said : "I 
think I could find you that dog, Madame." She said : 
"If you can I would be delighted to reward you with 
$5." "Oh !" he said, "I couldn't think of taking it." He 
went up to the General's door, rapped on it and told him 
he had made a great mistake ; he had sold him the dog, 
but he believed it was not really his to sell. The lady 
had, meantime, insisted upon his taking $2.50, and he 
pressed the first two and a half into the General's hand. 

However, pleasantries aside, I am very glad to have this 
opportunity to say just a word or two to this large gath- 
ering, because I know that a good many alumni are pres- 
ent, who are not always here, and I would like to say, 

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in connection with our new building, that there are some 
things needed beside the building, which will really be 
the smallest part of our undertaking. When we have 
a house for the Y. M. C. A. and other social purposes, 
and attempt to increase our efforts at debating and public 
speaking; we shall need a great deal more encouragement 
than we generally get. Now, if it is simply a case of 
getting people to come and root for a football team, 
we can generally get them ; but if you should want to get 
a bunch of fifty out to listen to a debate, I think it would 
be a bit harder ; and I would like to enter a plea for the 
alumni to take home and think over. When this building 
shall be erected, and your committee that has been ap- 
pointed shall present a program for you to consider, will 
not the undergraduates, the alumni and the faculty all take 
part in this new club, and be ready to give it their very 
hearty support? Then we shall have a club and a con- 
ception that is worth talking about. I ought not to have 
to plead for this, because we generally do everything the 
right way at Haverford ; but this, perhaps, will be a little 
bit harder than some other things. I have no precon- 
ceived plan or scheme for the new club ; the building is 
freely given, and the organization shall be exactly what 
you wish to make it. 

I am glad to have had the opportunity to say this. 
(Applause.) 

("Come Gather Round" sung.) 

The Chairman : Fellozv Alumni: It was very im- 
pressive yesterday, at the meeting in the afternoon, and 
again at the dinner, to hear the words of kindness, of 
sympathy and of praise that were given to us upon those 
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I think we must all have felt our heart burn within us 
as some of those things were said which we could hardly 
honestly take to ourselves in the fulness with which they 
were uttered. None of us really thinks that no progress 
is possible for Haverford on the road of virtue, as was 
said, perhaps, or hinted, by more than one speaker yester- 
day. There are a great many things that Haverford 
could improve. Those of you who were at the dinner 
last night got the impression that the faculty needed no 
further attention (laughter) financially! (Laughter.) 

There is just one trouble, fellow Haver fordians, with 
this celebration : if to-morrow were not Sunday, I should 
feel like extending this over and having a saints' day 
to-morrow when the faculty would have the word. The 
faculty haven't been heard from on this occasion as a 
faculty — the really hard-slaving faculty. One or two of 
us have stood up and done this sort of thing; we don't 
expect to be paid for that — it is not worth paying for ; 
but there is a lot of hard work done here in the course 
of a year by our faculty, and that Carnegie Report put a 
very rosy hue on the question of remuneration. H ever 
statistics failed to tell the truth from the faculty standpoint, 
that report certainly failed. If we have the most highly 
paid faculty in the country, I am very sorry for the others 
(laughter) ; and that is one of the things that could be 
greatly improved, if we only had a day to-morrow to 
devote to the consideration of that very important sub- 
ject. You are all, I know, interested that Haverford 
should have the best faculty that money can get ; and 
you are all interested that the members of it should be 
decently kept ; not on a charity basis — decently kept ! 
Now if the faculty had a word to-morrow, they would 
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upset this Carnegie Report so that it wouldn't have any- 
thing left to stand on. But we haven't got any sugges- 
tions to make at this time ; I simply say that is one of the 
points where perhaps we are not yet entirely perfect. 

What Mr. George Wharton Pepper said, to my mind, 
struck the great note that was struck yesterday; and I 
hope there are many other people who think so. Mr. 
Pepper's remark about the cultivation of the spiritual 
side of our natures while we are in college, was, I think, 
by general consent a courageous note to strike, and it 
was a new note to most of us ; and it was a note that 
will be heard from, I am sure, in the future. (Ap- 
plause.) Now Mr. Pepper brought us from the Law 
School of the University of Pennsylvania a very sug- 
gestive note. My next speaker comes from the same 
atmosphere, but is a Plaverford man. I introduce to you 
now Dr. William Draper Lewis, A.B., of the class of '88; 
LL.D. and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, '91 ; some- 
time lecturer on Political Science in this College ; Dean 
of the University of Pennsylvania Law School for the 
past twelve years ; author of many legal works ; one of 
our most distinguished graduates in his chosen pro- 
fession. Dr. Lewis. (Applause.) 

Remarks 01!* William Draper Lewis. 

Ladies and gentlemen: I stand here to-night not as 
Dean of a department of the University, but as a Haver- 
fordian, simply, to tell you one of the many reasons — a 
reason which may be new to you — why I constantly feel 
proud of the fact that I graduated at Haverford College. 

I don't know a great deal about the conduct of the 
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lecturer on economics; but I have a rather remarkable 
opportunity to judge the relative merits of the graduates 
of the different colleges in the country. The Law De- 
partment of the University has in each of its entering 
classes from 120 to 150 men, representing some 57 — I 
think it is this year — at any rate, between 50 and 60 
colleges in the country. Now we have each year about 
two to three men who came from Haverford College; 
and glancing over the statistics of the last six years (and 
I think those statistics were also duplicated by the six 
years that went before) I find this fact: that out of the 
12 or 13 Haverford men who have passed through, or 
who are passing through, the Law Department of the 
University, no less than 6, that is to say 50 per cent., 
have either through their entire course or for at least 
one year led the class of the Law School of the University 
of Pennsylvania. (Applause.) 

And I want to tell you that that is a record which is 
not duplicated by any other college in this country. I 
got those statistics oft' to a fellow-Haverfordian not very 
long ago, and he said to me : "Well, I see we have got 
you in the right place. You know how to mark Haver- 
ford men" (laughter) ; and in case there are any doubters 
like that in the audience, I simply want to say, that at 
the Law Department of the University we mark by 
numbers ; that is to say, the papers are read by numbers, 
and not by the names of the students ; and, therefore, the 
Dean being a Haverfordian has had nothing to do with 
that result. 

Now, if I may take just a moment more of your time, 
I would like to show the reverse side of that shield. 
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we all ought to realize it, because it is a reverse side not 
only of the Haverford shield, but of the shield of all the 
older Eastern colleges in this country. If we look at a 
professional department of a great university, we shall 
find that it is largely the State in miniature. The Law 
Department of the University, for instance, contains 
men who are not only descendants of the original settlers 
of Pennsylvania — the Quakers and the Germans and the 
Scotch-Irish — and not only the descendants of the Irish 
who came to this State in the last century, but that there 
are men whose fathers have been born in Russia, in Italy, 
in Austria, in practically every country of Europe; in 
other words, we have over in the Law Department the 
State of Pennsylvania in miniature. 

Now the other side of the shield is this : that if I should 
give you the statistics of the men who had been elected 
presidents of their classes, I could point to but 
one Haverfordian. If I should be asked whether there 
were among the Haverfordians, or among the representa- 
tives of the other colleges — of the older colleges of the 
East — the men of real influence in the Law Department, 
I should have to say : ".Sometimes, but not always." Now 
the serious part of that is this : that what we need in 
this country, as I understand it, most of all (being a 
democracy), is the leadership of men who are fitted to 
lead ; and if you look at a department of a great univer- 
sity of your State, which is your State in miniature, and 
you don't find, as a rule, the men who ought 
to be the leaders, then you have got something, per- 
haps, which will give you an inkling of why you don't 
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the vState at large ; and you couldn't hold my position for 
a month without seeing what the trouble is. 

Haverford and the other Eastern colleges of this coun- 
try send us men who are all right in their intellectual 
training; all right in their ideals, but who come to us 
without any conscious sense that they want to know per- 
sonally a different type of man from the type oi man 
they have met in the college from which they have come. 
In other words, you are sending us men with a class in- 
stinct, rather than with a democratic instinct. 

Now I think it is a truism that you cannot lead a 
crowd of men unless you sympathize with all the elements 
which compose that crowd ; unless you have personal 
friends among the different classes ; and you cannot, in a 
democracy, lead — unless you have in you the character- 
istics which lead you to want to know and to sympathize 
with the various classes of men that compose that democ- 
racy ; and one of the great problems, as I see it, as the 
head of a professional school, is this : not to increase the 
good ideals of the .students who come to us from such 
colleges as Haverford; not necessarily to improve their 
intellectual training, but to make them realize that what 
they want to do, by the time they are a few years out 
of college, is to number among their personal friends 
the best in every group that makes up our complex civili- 
zation to-day. (Applause.) 

Now it is very easy for me to put a finger on a weak 
spot. That is very easy. It is much more difficult to 
suggest a practical remedy, and I am not going to try 
it, except to this extent, that I believe what we mainly 
need is this : that those who are responsible for the con- 
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here and in the other Eastern colleges, should realize the 
fact that they are training men intellectually all right, 
largely morally all right, but that they are not turning 
out, as they should, men who have the instinct to 
become leaders in modern American democracy. 
I ask your apology for bringing a subject of this kind — 
of a certain amount of seriousness — before you this even- 
ing. I am proud of being a Haverfordian. Nothing 
gives me as much pleasure as when I see a man come in — 
and I can almost tell the Haverfordian ; there is a certain 
moral stamp which is left by the influence of President 
Sharpless and a certain intellectual stamp which is left 
by men like Gummere that you begin to know. I begin to 
know the type of Haverfordian when I see him — the 
younger Haverfordian as well as the older; and I am 
always glad to see him. We don't number our students, 
though we do number the examination papers. They 
are personalities to us ; and it warms my heart to matric- 
ulate a Haverfordian. As the registrar said to me the 
other day : "There's nothing the matter with the Haver- 
fordians, except we don't have enough of them." But 
what I should like to see is that the Haverfordians who 
come to us should not only be men who stood at the 
head of their classes intellectually, but that they should 
also be leaders among their fellows, and when they went 
out become leaders of men. We need them at the Uni- 
versity and we need them in the State. (Applause.) 

The Chairman : I should, perhaps, say that there are 
only two more numbers upon my list, after which the 
more enthusiastic part of this gathering will settle down 
to business for some singing; therefore, those who are 
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take it for granted that it will all be over before half 
past nine. 

My next speaker will speak for the youngest graduates 
— Mr. Walter Carson, of the class of '06. I will not speak 
of his future at the Bar; I think he will be one with 
whom Dr. Lewis would be in sympathy. At any rate, 
when in college he was an able and wise boss of under- 
graduate affairs. His words came with eloquence and 
with authority. He will speak for the youngest gradu- 
ates. Mr. Walter Carson. (Applause.) 

Remarks of Walte:^ Carson. 

Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, and Fellow- 
Haver for dians: 

The sensation of looking into the faces of one's "ances- 
tors" is a very solemnizing one, I assure you, and cautions 
infancy to speak with great deliberation. Indeed, I 
cannot help feeling that the most becoming representation 
that can be given for the young alumni, at this time, is one 
that is seen and not heard. 

While it is not perhaps the proper thing for the junior 
alumni to be speaking on this very dignified and serious 
occasion, at the same time I think that they are an ele- 
ment — in this celebration. It would have been a very 
logical and fitting thing for the committee in charge 
to place the young alumni on pedestals in various parts 
of the campus, and to get the services of some optimistic 
person, like Dr. Comfort, in order to expound to you 
elderly members of our fraternity just how your efforts 
to produce at Haverford the ideal man have, after sev- 
enty-five years, at least .reached an astounding success. 

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(and I am allowed but a few moments in which to con- 
clude) permit me to say this : Now you men who have 
established Haverford have made it a very difficult thing 
to be a Haverford alumnus. It takes a great deal more 
time and work to be an alumnus than it does to be an 
undergraduate. Wherever we go we meet traces of 
Haverford men who have been there before us, and they 
have set a strenuously high standard. We sort of feel 
that a great weight is resting upon us, and that we have 
the very serious duty of maintaining someone's else 
reputation. 

A friend of mine, for instance, a young Haverford 
graduate, entered the office of one of the great universi- 
ties of this country. He presented his credentials, which 
described him, of course, as a graduate of Haverford. 
He requested certain work to be assigned him for a 
higher degree ; and the work was mapped out, with 
something gratuitous added, apparently, in virtue of his 
credentials. The young man, being taught the virtue of 
frank speech, exclaimed to the secretary : "Do you think 
a man can do that in one year !" And the secretary said : 
"We have never had any trouble in having Haverford 
men do that before." 

On another occasion a manufacturer of Philadelphia 
was preparing to submit bids to a young Haverford 
employee. The Philadelphia manufacturer was in a very 
unfavorable position, because he had to compete with in- 
fluential local manufacturers. He asked the Haverford 
man, before finally deciding to present an estimate, 
whether there was any possibility of his booking the 
work, and received this reply : "You have asked me if I 
think there is any possibility of your getting this con- 

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tract. I don't think so, simply because you are not a 
local manufacturer, and I advise you not to expend any 
more money in trying to get the work." The man said : 
"That is very unpleasant news ; but I thank you for your 
frankness. I have always found Haverford men to be 
just that kind." 

Such seems to be the situation wherever we go : there 
is a standard set for us, which, I assure you, taxes every 
quality that we have, to measure up to it. But we gladly 
undertake the task. 

I see that my time is up, and since I dare not disobey 
my instructions I shall have to keep the remainder of 
this brilliant speech until the next — the one hundred and 
fiftieth — anniversary. ( Applause. ) 

The Chairman : That last speaker was the only one 
that I had any share in forming. I think he came up to 
the Haverford standard (applause) ; and if any fatherly 
commendation is in order for those of us who are a 
little older than he is, we may assure him that we who 
are older do look towards these last few classes upon 
such an occasion as this. Gentlemen, we could not have 
had this occasion as it has been without the last ten 
classes — nor anything like it. (Applause.) 

You know — those of you who are older know 
— what alumni meetings used to be not so very 
long ago. They were solemn enough occasions to drive 
anybody away. I am glad that my time has fallen in a 
period of Haverford history when some enthusiasm is 
being developed. It is a lot more fun to belong to a 
machine that occasionally makes a little noise and shows 
some signs of life, than to be in a freight car on a 
siding. A few years ago such an occasion as this would 

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have been absolutely impossible with all the pleasures 
of uproarious enthusiasm which have been developed to- 
day. 

Now, gentlemen, the entertainment so far has been 
furnished entirely by graduates. To some it may seem 
that to introduce any undergraduate effort to the plat- 
form upon this occasion is to introduce something extra- 
neous ; but as a matter of fact we are very much the same 
color, let us hope — graduates and undergraduates; and 
it was decided some months ago to give the undergradu- 
ates a dignified place upon this program by asking them 
to compete in the writing of an appropriate short poem, 
either in the form of an ode or of a sonnet, which might 
be read as voicing undergraduate sentiment upon this 
occasion. The award was made, by a small committee of 
graduate judges to whom the manuscripts were sub- 
mitted, in favor of a poem written by John French Wil- 
son, of the class of 1910. (Applause.) 

In the absence of the author, Mr. L. Hollingsworth 
Wood, of the class of 1896, will read this undergraduate 
poem. 

L. HoLUNGSwoRTH WooD : I would ask the friends 
here gathered together to bear very much with the voice, 
which has been at the disposal of my alma mater for over 
twenty- four hours. (Read poem as follows;) (Pro- 
longed applause.) 

Young is our mother still, and very fair 

To all her sons who live and serve her yet, 
Now that the kindly hand of Time hath set 

Her forehead with a crown of silver hair. 

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We call her mother, lacking better name ; 

For she is nameless, even as Death, and Time ; 

She drives the human heart to fashion rhyme 
For her, and puts its human rhyme to shame. 

Hers is the glory of eternal youth. 

Blended with age eternal. As the spring, 
Flower and bloom perpetual does she bring. 

Out of the sun and soil and wind of truth. 

To-day her springtime bloom returns again. 
But ripened into rich maturity 
Of fruit and harvest, so rejoicingly 

She gathers her autumnal wealth of men. 

The splendor of the past is on her brow ; 

The promise of the future in her eyes; 

And that high worth is hers that can despise 
Future and past, to meet the living now. 

Hers is the mystery of motherhood; 

Unreasoning love, that asketh no return; 

And fires calm yet passionate, that burn 
Warm through the cold rains of ingratitude. 

Hers is the power of the restless main 

That draws its mighty waters from afar; 
Many and deep her hidden fountains are. 

Whence having drawn, she sendeth back again. 

She layeth her foundations on the deep ; 

Not as the grass or flower she withereth ; 

For she shall live when the soft hand of death 
Has wrapt her children's children into sleep. 

So let us call her mother — even we, 

Her younger children, who but dimly feel 
That depth of tenderness she will reveal 

Increasing, in the many years to be. 

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We may not tongue the word as well as you 

Who see her through the golden mist of years ; 
Your laughter may be deeper than our tears; 

For you are tried — and we have yet to do. 

But as the young child, weary of its play, 

Calls "Mother" from a cause it cannot know, 
So suffer us to call her. Years will show 

The meaning of the word we speak to-day. 

Let us not sing of that we know so well 

That memory wakens at a light word's fall — 
The mandolins a-tinkle down the hall — 

The clatter of feet — and Founder's solemn bell; 

Black gowns a-flutter on a field of green — 
The dull red embers of a dying fire — 
A full moon streaming over roof and spire — 

We wait for time to teach us all they mean. 

But this we know — our mother is very fair, 
To all her sons who love and serve her yet. 
Now that the kindly hand of Time hath set 

Her forehead with a crown of silver hair. 

John French Wilson (ex) 'lo. 

Thej Chairman : Before asking for Mr. Samuel 
Mason to make a motion which he desires to make, I 
should like to say a word for the little book of "Haver- 
ford Verse" — a final word. This book of Haverford 
verse, I believe, is the first of the kind published at 
Haverford. It is a limited edition. It will probably not 
have to go into a second edition within a few days. I 
have been asked to say that there are some copies left 
which can be obtained at the top of the stairs as you pass 
out, at the original price of publication. In a few days 
that price is liable to go up ; and then, of course, you will 
be very sorry that you didn't get it when it was still 

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clown. I will now ask Mr. Mason to make a motion which 
I understand he has upon his heart. 

Mr. Mason : Mr. Chairman, Fellow Alumni and 
Brothers: 

I don't think that I can really feel clear in allowing 
this celebration to come to a close without asking you to 
join me in the sentiment that I have had on my mind 
ever since we have come together. This celebration, I 
feel, has been most completely successful from beginning 
to end. Yesterday we had one of the most interesting 
meetings I think I ever attended; and I think that all of 
you who were present at that meeting will go home 
feeling that you have had something, and heard some- 
thing, that you will never forget. Last evening's dinner 
was equally successful, and certainly to-day we have had 
a most delightful time. It goes without saying that there 
must have been some machinery behind the whole enter- 
tainment and exercises which has made that entertain- 
ment move along so smoothly as it has done ; and I know 
it must have taken the united efforts of many of our 
brothers to do the work that has been done, and I hope 
those whom I do not mention will not feel at all hurt 
at my leaving their names out of it. However, I do feel 
that you can all join me in congratulations to our Presi- 
dent, Isaac Sharpless ; to our dear old friend, Henry 
Cope, of '69, and to our chairman of this evening's meet- 
ing, Dr. William W. Comfort — for bearing the brunt and 
main part of the work that has been accomplished in 
entertaining us so gracefully. Gentlemen, I ask you to 
join me in a rising motion of thanks to those gentlemen. 

(Rising, affirmative vote performed; cheers for "Presi- 
dent Sharpless," "Henry Cope," and "Comfort.") 

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The Chairman : It seems well to halt this meeting 
some time and to give the impression that it is really- 
over. That is only an effect of art, however. We have 
had, already, one or two conclusions which have offered 
opportunity for those to withdraw gracefully who felt 
that they had to do so. However, this does conclude the 
part of the program for which I had personally felt re- 
sponsible. I thank you for the frequent lucid moments 
which you have allowed to the speakers. When you 
started in I had some fear that perhaps the speaking 
would only be a very minor part of the entertainment. 
We have heard, even to-night at the eleventh hour, some 
good advice, and some good records made by Haver- 
fordians. I think it is fitting that the last words spoken 
upon such an anniversary as this should be spoken by our 
own men, coming back to their alma mater from many dif- 
ferent spheres of activity and bringing different mes- 
sages. 

I feel, now, that the unruly element, by their patience 
and by their quietness, has well deserved recognition; 
and I propose to call upon some enthusiastic undergradu- 
ate, or recent graduate, to be nominated by himself, to 
come to the platform and take charge of the demonstra- 
tion which will probably and properly close this joyful 
reunion ; so I hereby step down from this platform 
and take down with me all signs of seriousness and all 
signs of program; and, if the President will allow you, 
I don't see why you shouldn't stay here as long as you 
like, making as much noise as you like; and I will leave 
the choice of my successor to yourselves. 

The meeting then adjourned. 



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HAVBRFORD COLLEGE. 



OLD HAVERFORDIANS PRESENT, BY CLASSES. 



Class of '44. 
Ellis, Evan Tyson 

Class of '45. 

Gummere, Henry D. 

Class of '47. 

Pennock, A. Liddon 

Class of '48. 
Morris, Elliston P. 

Class of '49. 

Smiley, Albert K. 

Class of 'so. 
Nicholson, Coleman L. 

Class of '51. 

Levis, Franklin B. 
Wood, Richard 

Class of '$2. 
Stokes, Francis 

Class of '53. 

Tevis, Norman 
Class of '54. 

Cadbury, John W. 

Deacon, James W . 

Garrett, John B. 

Class of '55. 
Reeve, Augustus 

Class of '56. 
Beesley, B. W. 
Cadbury, Joel 
Wood, Edward Randolph 

Class of '57. 
Tyler, William G. 
Wood, William Cooper 



Class of '58. 
Alderson, William C. 
Hopkins, George H. 
Livezey, John 
Mellor, William 
Potts, William W. 
Tyler, W. Graham 
Wistar, Dr. Thomas 
Wood, James 

Class of '59. 

Parrish, James C. 
Smith, Benjamin H. 
Witmer, John S. 

Class of '60. 
Hopkins, Walter G. 
Merritt, Isaac N. 
Morris, Theodore H. 
Tyson, Dr. James 

Class of '61. 

Bettle, Edward, Jr. 
Lippincott, Charles 
Thomas, John C. 

Class of '62. 
Coates, Henry T. 
Lippincott, Horace G. 
Morris. Anthony J. 
Starr, Edward 

Class of '63. 
Coates, William M. 
Morris, William H. 
Pancoast, Henry B. 

Class of '64. 
Cooper, Howard M. 
Garrett, Albin 
Merritt, Charles F. 
Shepherd, C. W. 
Zook, John M. 



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Class of '65. 
Downing, Joseph M. 
Swift, Henry H. 
Thomas, Allen C. 

Class of '66. 
Brown, H. C. 
Elliott, A. M. 
Gummere, R. M. 

Class of '67. 
Ashbridge, George 
Chase, Robert H. 
Coffin, Elijah 
Jones, Richard M. 
Levick, Lewis J. 
Morris, John T. 
Tomlinson, Benjamin A. 
Wood, Walter 

Class of '68. 
Starr, Dr. Louis 
Wills, Dr. Joseph H. 

Class of '6g. 
Cope, Henry 
Longstreth, Benjamin T. 
Taylor, Edward B. 
Taylor, William S. 
Wood, Henry 

Class of '70. 
Brown, James Stuart 
Hilles, T. Allen 
Wood, Stuart 

Class of '71. 
Garrigues, John S. 
Haines, Reuben 
Haines, William H. 
Moore, Walter T. 
Taylor, Charles S. 
Winslow, Dr. Randolph 

Class of '72. 
Cadbury, Richard T. 
Downing, T. S. 
Forsythe, John E. 



Class of '72 Continued. 
Gibbons, W. H. 
Gummere, Francis B. 
Haines, Caspar W. 
Huston, A. F. 
Huston, William P. 
Longstreth, William M. 
Wistar, E. M. 

Class of '7S. 

Comfort, James C. 
Cope, Thomas P. 
Emlen, George W. 
Warner, George M. 

Class of '74. 
Bullock, John G. 
Emlen, James 
Hilles, Samuel E. 
Price, Theophilus T. 

Class of '75. 
Brown, Alonzo 
Pharo, Walter W. 
White, Miles, Jr. 

Class of '76. 
Bispham, David 
Gififord, Seth K. 
Haines, F. C. 
Hobbs, L. Lyndon 
Holme, R. H. 
Longstreth, Charles A. 
Nicholson, J. W. 
Taylor, F. H. 
Taylor, Howard G. 

Class of '77. 
Baily, Frederick L. 
Forsythe, Isaac 
Townsend, Wilson 

Class of '78. 
Baily, A. L. 
Bailey, Henry 
Black, John M. L. 
Comfort, Edward T. 
Crosman, Charles S. 



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Class of ys Continued. 
Eldridge, Jonathan 
Haines, Robert B., Jr. 
Thomas, J. M. W. 

Class of yg. 

Gifford, John H. 
Lowry, William C. 

Class of '80. 
Brede, Charles F. 
Corbit, Alexander P. 
Cause, Charles E., Jr. 
Jones, Edward M. 
Mason, Samuel 
Rhoads, Joseph 
Whitall, John M. 

Class of '81. 
Blair, W. A. 
Brinton, Walter 
Collins, William H. 
Cook, Horace 
Edwards, Levi T. 
Forsythe, Davis H. 
Johnson, Isaac T. 
ITartshornc, E. Y. 
Price, Walter F. 
Shipley, Walter P. 
Smith, A. L. 
Winston, John C. 

Class of '82. 

Barton, George A. 
Corbit. Daniel 
Hazard. Richard B. 
Jones, W. R. 
Palmer, T. C. 
Thomas, Dr. Henry M. 

Class of '83. 

Baily, William L. 
Collins, Stephen W. 
Evans, George H. 
Hoxie, Henry N. 
Rhodes, R. Somers S. 
Thomas, Bond V. 
Whitney, Charles H. 



Clas-s of '84. 

Moore, Walter L. 
White, Francis A. 
Yarnall, Charlton 

Class of '85. 
Baily, C. W. 
Jones, R. M. 
Morris, M. C. 
Reeve, W. F. 
Richards, Theodore W. 
Wickersham, W. F. 
White, E. H. 

Class of '86. 
McFarland, W. S. 
Morris, William P. 
Smith, Horace E. 

Class of '87. 
Adams, J. Howe 
Bacon, John 
Bedell. Charles H. 
Clement, Allen B. 
Futrell, William H. 
Garrett, Alfred C. 
Goddard, Henry H. 
Hazard, Willis H. 
Herendeen, Francis A. 
Lesley, Hugh 
Lewis, Edmund C. 
Newhall, Barker 
Phillips, Jesse E., Jr. 
Stokes, Henry W. 
Strawbridge, Frederic H. 
Trotter, Frederic N. 
White, Richard J. 

Class of '88. 

Battey, Charles H. 
England, Howell S. 
Hilles, Joseph T. 
Leeds, Morris E. 
Lewis, William Draper 
Morris, Frederick W. 
Morris, Richard J. 
Roberts, G. Brinton 
Sharp, Joseph W., Jr. 
Slocum, Allison W. 



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Class of '89. 
Branson, Dr. Thomas F. 
Dunton, Dr. W. D. 
Evans, Thomas 
Griscom, R. E. 
Kirkbride, F. B. 
Leeds, A. N. 
Morris, A. J. 
Overman, William F. 
Smith, Wilson \ 

Stokes, J. Stogdell 
Thompson, F. E. 
Wood, Gilbert C. 

Class of 'go. 
Audenreid, William G., Jr. 
Baily, Henry P. 
Butler, George T. 
Longstreth, Edward R. 
Simpson, William Percy 
Steere, Jonathan M. 

Class of '91. 
Canby, William M. 
Fischer, William G., Jr. 
Hoopes, Arthur 
Mitchell, Jacob T. 
Todd, Henry A. 

Class of '92. 
Brinton, Christian 
Brumbaugh, Isaac H. 
Cadbury, Benjamin 
Gary, Egbert S. 
Collins, Minturn Post 
Davis, Henry L-, Jr. 
Hart, Walter M. 
Hastings, William. W. 
McAllister, Franklin 
Muir, John W. 
Nicholson, William H., Jr. 
Parrish, Maxfield 
Shipley, William E. 
West, W. Nelson L. 
Yarnall, Stanley R, 



Class of '9^. 
Bechtel, H. O. 
Haviland, Walter S. 
Ploag, Clarence G. 
Jacobs, Carroll Brinton 
Morton, A. V. 
Okie, J. M. 
Reeves, Francis B., Jr. 
Rhoads, Charles J. 
Sensenig, Barton 
Roberts, John 
Taylor, James Gurney 
Wright, Gififord King 

Class of '94. 
Busselle, Alfred 
Chase, Oscar M. 
Comfort, William W. 
Farr, Clifford B. 
Haughton, J. Paul 
Morris, Samuel W. 
Ristine, Frederick P. 
Rorer, Jonathan T. 
Spaid, A. R. 
vStokes, Francis J. 
Strawbridge, William J. 
Taber, David S. 
Williams, Parker S. 

Class of '95. 
Bettle, Samuel, Jr. 
Conklin, Frank H. 
Engle, J. Linton 
Hay, Erroll B. 
Lippincott, George 
Thomas, Allen C. 
Webster, Walter C. 
Villars, J. O. 

Class of '96. 
Adams, Douglas H. 
Brecht, Samuel K. 
Brooke, Mark 
Haines, T. Harvey 
Maier, Paul D. L 
Owen, H. F. 
Scattergood, J. Henry 



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Class of '96 Continued. 
Sharpless, William C. 
Wood, L. Hollingsvvorth 

Class of '97. 

Brown, Richard C. 
Burns, William J. 
Collins, Alfred M. 
Gilpin, Vincent 
Fisher, Wager 
Hoffman, Benjamin R. 
Howson, Charles H. 
Hume, John E. 
Hutton, Walter P. 
Jacobs, Francis B. 
McCrea, Roswell C. 
MacAfee, William H. 
Maxfield, Francis N. 
Palmer, George M. 
Rhoads, William G. 
Tatnall, Charles G. 
Thacher, Frank W. 
White, Henry A. 

Class of 9S. 

Bishop, Alexander H. 
Butler, James E. 
Cadbury, Dr. W. W. 
Haines, Altred S. 
Haines, Joseph H. 
Janney, Walter C. 
Rhoads, Samuel 
Scattergood, Alfred G. 
Strawbridge. Francis R. 
Swan, Frederick A. 
Wistar, Thomas, Jr. 

Class of 99. 
Battey, William A. 
Bishop, Gilbert L-, Jr. 
Butler, J. Edgar 
Carter, John D. 
DeCou, Benjamin S- 
Evans, F. Algernon 
Haines, Alfred S. 
Haines, Arthur 
Lycett, Edward PT. 
Maule, Alfred C. 



Class of '99 Continued. 
Mellor, Ralph 
Morris, Joseph P. 
Richie, E. Roberts 

Class of '00. 
Allen, C. J. 
Bell, W. B. 
Cope, F. R., Jr. 
Drinker, Henry S., Jr. 
Emlen, J. T. 
Febiger, C. 
Freeman, E. D. 
Hallett, H. M. 
Hiatt, James S. 
Hinchman, W. S. 
Howson, F. S. 
Justice, W. W., Jr. 
Lloyd, J. E. 
Mifflin, S. W. 
Moorhouse, J. K. 
Sharpless, Dr. F. C. 
Tatnall, A. G. 

Class of '01. 

Babbitt, Harold A. 
Brown, Ellis Y., Jr. 
Cadbury, William Edward 
Cadbury, John W., Jr. 
Dewees, A. Lovett 
Freeman, Edward A. 
Mellor, George B., Jr. 
Patton, Richard 
Rossmaessler, Edward C. 
Scull, E. Marshall 
Walenta, George J. 

Class of '02. 

Balderston, Henry L. 
Barclay, Joseph J. 
Cary, Charles R. 
Caswell, Andrew B. 
Chambers, William W. 
Cookman, Arthur S. 
Dennis, William V. 
Evans, Edward W. 
Gummere, Richard M. 
Hendricks, K. E. 
Jones, S. Percy 



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Class of '02 Continued. 
Longstreth, William C. 
Newlin, Gurney E. 
Newman, Herman 
Nicholson, Percival 
Philips, William P. 
Pusey, W. W., 2d 
Roberts, David A. 
Ross, Robert J. 
Scott, Norris A. 
Seller, C. Linn 
Stork, Charles Wharton 
Thomas, George H. 
Trout, Edgar E. 
Wistar, Caspar 
Whiteley, Richard S. M. 
Wood, Alexander C, Jr. 
Woodward, Parke L. 

Class of '03. 

Barr, Franklin E. 
Cornman, Clarence R. 
Domincovitch, Harry A. 
Drinker, James B. 
Hoffman, Enoch H. 
Peirce, George 
Swift, Willard E. 
Tilney, Israel S. 
Wilson, Samuel N. 
Worthington, J. Kent., Jr. 

Class of '04. 
Clark, J. W. 
Folwell, P. D. 
Haig, C. R. 
Helbert, G. K. 
Hilles, W. T. 
Kimber, W. M. C. 
Kratz, A. W. 
Lowry, R. P. 
Megear, T. J. 
Morris, C. Christopher 
Morris, Dr. Harold H. 
Thorn, PI. N. 
Sheldon, C. N. 
West, E. P. 
Wills, W. M. 
Withers, Samuel C. 



Class of '05. 
Alexander, A. C. 
Babb, M. J. 
Boher, S. M. 
Bradley, W. S. 
Bushnell, C. S. 
Gates, B. H. 
Downing, T. S. 
Eshleman, B. 
Evans, E. M. 
Fisher, C. W. 
Hopkins, A. H. 
Jones, H. W. 
Jones, Paul 
Eee, C. S. 
Libby, R. G. 
Morris, J. H. 
Murray, E. C. 
Ohl, F. W. 
Pearson, R. L. 
Peirce, E. C. 
Priestman, A. G. 
Scull, John E. 
Seeley, L. B. 
Smyth, L. 
Spaeth, S. G. 
Stein, H. K. 
Thomas, H. P. 
Wheeler, V. W. 
Winslow, E. F, 

Class of '06. 

Brown, Thomas K., Jr. 
Carson, Walter 
Dickson, Anbury C. 
Ewing, J. M. Sharpless 
Plaines, William H., Jr. 
Hopper, E. Boardman 
Miller, Warren K. 
Morris, Francis B. 
Nauman, Spencer G. 
Philips, Jesse D. 
Pleasants, Henry, Jr. 
Reid, David J. 
Sands, R. W. 
Smiley, Albert K., Jr. 
Stratton, John A. 



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Class of '06 Continued. 
Taylor, Francis R. 
Tunney, Joseph 

Class of '07. 
Brown, A. E. 
Brown, P. W. 
Birdsall, Joseph C. 
Comfort, George B. 
Evans, Harold 
Godley, Francis D. 
Gummere, Samuel J. 
Haines, Wilbur H. 
Hoover, Charles R. 
Jones, Ernest F. 
Magill, James P. 
March, M. H. 
March, J. C. B. 
Nicholson, J. W., Jr. 
Rossmaessler, William 
Shoemaker, Howard H. 
Tatnall, E. C. 
Thomas, F. T. 
Warner, Alexander N. 
Windle, William B. 



Class of '08. 
Brown, Carroll T. 
Burtt, Howard 
Bushnell, Joseph, 3d 
Clement, J. Browning 
Drinker, Cecil K. 
Edwards, Edward A. 
Elkinton, Passmore 
Emlen, George W., Jr. 
Ervien, Robert 
Hill, Thomas R. 
Leonard, Arthur C. 
Miller, Charles L. 
Morriss, William H., Jr. 
Musser, Frederic O. 
Rogers, Charles H. 
Scott, Carl F. 
Shoemaker, Walter R. 
Strode, George K. 
Thomas, James Carey, 2d 
Whitson, Walter W. 
Woodard, Raymond C. 
Wright, Edwin 



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